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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.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my Foucault's Pendulum, the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.
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The poets did not win the philosophers surrendered.
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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 do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their bad poems and go off to run guns in Africa, and the bad poets, who publish theirs and keep writing more until they die.
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But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.
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Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
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My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.
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How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.
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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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