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Letter "U" » Umberto Eco Quotes
«A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
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Books not, clumsy, devotes, elements, fragile, librarian, librarians, oblivion, protects, the books, The Elements, The Librarian
«Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn»
«The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.»
«I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
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consumed, continuing, displays, generate, poetic, readings, text
«There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.»
«There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
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American history, celebrated, copy, dominates, duplication, European, full-scale, infrequently, in full, Philosophy of, preserved, scale, The European
«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.»
«Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.»
«A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.»
«I felt like poisoning a monk.»
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