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For the Kabalist, the fact that God expresses Himself, even though His utterances are beyond any human insight, is more important than any specific and coded meaning His words can convey.
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The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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But I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.
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I don't even have an E-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages,
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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.
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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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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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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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One can and should light fires, eat bread, and enjoy physical beauty, but calmly and with disciplined serenity.
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Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?
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The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
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The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100°C
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I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
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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?
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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.
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We've got to help each other, seeing as God doesn't help us. Do you see how great Jesus' idea was? Imagine how much it must have irritated God. Forget the devil, Jesus was the only true enemy of God, and he's the only friend us poor wretches have.
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The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.
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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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Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.
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You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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Born:
January 5, 1932
Died:
February 19, 2016
(aged 84)
Bio:
Umberto Eco is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist.
Known for:
The Name of the Rose (1980)
Foucault's Pendulum (1988)
Numero Zero (2015)
The Prague Cemetery (2010)
Baudolino (2000)
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