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Sometimes my characters are not myself.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
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What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.
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You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
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I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
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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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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
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When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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