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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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To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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The hand of God creates it does not conceal.
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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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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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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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The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
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The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.
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By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.
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I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote I am that I am, for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.
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Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.
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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
Umberto Eco
I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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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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I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.
Umberto Eco
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
Umberto Eco
Books always speak of other books.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts therefore it is dumb.
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