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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.
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The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
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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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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
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The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.
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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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Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
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The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.
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There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
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He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.
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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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