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I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
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They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I'm a cat that hit its nose.
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... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
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Then why do you want to know? Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
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A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.
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A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.
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A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.
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You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.
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We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
Umberto Eco
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.
Umberto Eco
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
Umberto Eco
A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.
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There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.
Umberto Eco
He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.
Umberto Eco
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
Umberto Eco
Not bad, not bad at all, Diotallevi said. To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
Umberto Eco
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!
Umberto Eco
The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
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