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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Quotes

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Italian Novelist

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. - Umberto Eco Quotes

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Italian Novelist

I felt like poisoning a monk. - Umberto Eco Quotes

I felt like poisoning a monk.

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. - Umberto Eco Quotes

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.

America Imagination

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad. - Umberto Eco Quotes

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. - Umberto Eco Quotes

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Italian Novelist

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else - Umberto Eco Quotes

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

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. - Umberto Eco Quotes

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

Italian Novelist

Translation is the art of failure. - Umberto Eco Quotes

Translation is the art of failure.

Italian Novelist

If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity - Umberto Eco Quotes

If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity

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