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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.


Umberto Eco

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UMBERTO ECO To survive, you must tell stories.
UMBERTO ECO Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn...
UMBERTO ECO Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tact...
UMBERTO ECO Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty part...
UMBERTO ECO The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
UMBERTO ECO The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev...
UMBERTO ECO The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
UMBERTO ECO Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep...
UMBERTO ECO For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...
UMBERTO ECO The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...
UMBERTO ECO I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...
UMBERTO ECO And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...
UMBERTO ECO All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...
UMBERTO ECO But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which conce...
UMBERTO ECO In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...
UMBERTO ECO There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I...
UMBERTO ECO But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...
UMBERTO ECO لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسه...
UMBERTO ECO ...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy...
UMBERTO ECO We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l...
UMBERTO ECO This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the...
UMBERTO ECO How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!
UMBERTO ECO Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
UMBERTO ECO A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a nove...
UMBERTO ECO كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و �...
UMBERTO ECO True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in...
UMBERTO ECO Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same ...
UMBERTO ECO We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
UMBERTO ECO Love is wiser than wisdom.
UMBERTO ECO Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...
UMBERTO ECO Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in ev...
UMBERTO ECO the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...
UMBERTO ECO American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100
degrees centigrade in pla...
UMBERTO ECO The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of d...
UMBERTO ECO Priešas turi būti atpažįstamas ir baisus, jis turi būti tavo namuose arba prie durų slenksčio...
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