QUOTES by Umberto Eco
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You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.
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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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How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.
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I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.
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It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.
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Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
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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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How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!
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But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
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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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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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Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
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When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
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The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
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Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.
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Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
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It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
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True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
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Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.
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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.
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Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
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As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.
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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
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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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Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
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People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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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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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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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
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