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All Quotes by author - Umberto Eco

" All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black. "

" Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. "

" But now 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. "

" Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. "

" I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper. "

" 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. "

" I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. "

" I write what I write. "

" Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition. "

" Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness. "

" Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. "

" Our life is full of empty space. "

" Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. "

" Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. "

" Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel. "

" The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. "

" The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick. "

" The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. "

" The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem. "

" The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers. "

" The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. "

" The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. "

" To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout. "

" When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick. "

" With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China. "

" You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle. "

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