Umberto Eco Short Quotes

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

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I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

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What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

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The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

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But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100°C

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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

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When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.

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How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

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But I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

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In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

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I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

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A philosophy has a practical power: It contributes to the changing of the world.

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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

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There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.

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Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

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An amorous yearning is a liquor that becomes stronger when decanted into a friend's ear.

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For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

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

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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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In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

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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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He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.

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The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

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Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

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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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After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.

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