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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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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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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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To survive, you must tell stories.
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I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
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Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.
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