Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco was an Italian writer of fiction, essays, academic texts, and children's books. A professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, Eco’s brilliant fiction is known for its playful use of language and symbols, its astonishing array of allusions and references, and clever use of puzzles and narrative inventions. His perceptive essays on modern culture are filled with a delightful sense of humor and irony, and his ideas on semiotics, interpretation, and aesthetics have established his reputation as one of academia’s foremost thinkers.
“We live for books.”
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“I seal thatwhich was not to be said in the tomb that I become.”
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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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“Dios ha muerto, el arte dejó de existir, la historia ha llegado a su fin, y yo mismo no me siento del todo bien.”
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“Hoy no salir en televisión es un signo de elegancia.”
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“If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.”
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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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“Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.”
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“I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.”
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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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“... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.”
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