Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco, OMRI (; born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist.

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Translation is the art of failure.

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Umberto Eco

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

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Umberto Eco

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

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Umberto Eco

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

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Umberto Eco

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

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Umberto Eco

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

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Umberto Eco

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

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Umberto Eco

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

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Umberto Eco

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.

Tags: Whatever, Situation, Present

Umberto Eco

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

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Umberto Eco