Umberto Eco - Beautiful Quotes

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How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

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The Poet had, who had made a show of attaching no importance to this literary game (though it gnawed at his heart that he himself had not written such beautiful letters, provoking replies even more beautiful), and having no one with whom to fall in love, had fallen in love with the letters themselves — which, as Niketas remarked with a smile — was not surprising, since in youth we are prone to fall in love with love.

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All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.

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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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