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I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
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It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.
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We live for books.
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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
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I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
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Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.
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The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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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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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
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But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.
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Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
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The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar queen, alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
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