Quotes: Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
+9A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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Umberto Eco
0A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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Umberto Eco
0Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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Umberto Eco
0Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Umberto Eco
0Fear prophets 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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Umberto Eco
0I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
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Umberto Eco
0I 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.
Source: De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60 -
Umberto Eco
0I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
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Umberto Eco
0I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
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Umberto Eco
0I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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Umberto Eco
0I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.
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Umberto Eco
0I 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.
Source: De slinger van Foucault (2007) 104 -
Umberto Eco
0I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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Umberto Eco
0I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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Umberto Eco
0I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
Giuseppe Mazzini
