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Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
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Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.
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I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.
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Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
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I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.
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I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
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But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country
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Authors frequently say things they are unaware of only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
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All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.
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Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
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Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.
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The wise man does not discriminate he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
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