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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.
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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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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
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I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays
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The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
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Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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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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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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Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, I said, disheartened. Have you found any places where God would have felt at home? William asked me, looking down from his great height.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
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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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