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There are more people than you...

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

From lies to forgeries the ste...

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Books are menaced by books. An...

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The good of a book lies in its...

The good of a book lies in its being read.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I am a professor who writes no...

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The followers must feel besieg...

The followers must feel besieged.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Since I became a novelist I ha...

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.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I think that at a certain age,...

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Not that the incredulous perso...

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I discovered ... that a novel ...

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Is it possible to say 'It was...

Is it possible to say 'It was a beautiful morning at the end of November' without feeling like Snoopy?

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I dared, for the first and las...

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: 'But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

After so many years even the f...

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

A monk should surely love his ...

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

To read fiction means to play ...

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative Ђ' the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

You tell me these two were my ...

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

We know that sensory phenomena...

We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

If photography is to be likene...

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The photograph [of Che Guevara...

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

When one starts writing a book...

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

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