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Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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The wise man does not discriminate he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
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I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.
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Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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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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He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
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If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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The good of a book lies in its being read.
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My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.
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He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.
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What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
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Love is wiser than wisdom.
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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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Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
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