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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
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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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Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.
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You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
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How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.
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Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
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All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.
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A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.
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