“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.”
— Umberto Eco
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: history
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Perhaps the mission of those who love
“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.”
— Umberto Eco
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: truth
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A dream is a scripture, and many
“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
— Umberto Eco
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: dreams
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We have a limit, a very discouraging,
“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.”
— Umberto Eco
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: death
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But now I have come to believe
“But now 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
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: truth
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The real hero is always a hero
“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
— Umberto Eco
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: dreams
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die
“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
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: truth
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Translation is the art of failure.
“Translation is the art of failure.”
— Umberto Eco
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: art
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The comic is the perception of the
“The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.”
— Umberto Eco
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: humor
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Translation is the art of failure.
“Translation is the art of failure.”
— Umberto Eco
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: failure
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A book is a fragile creature, it
“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.”
— Umberto Eco
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: war
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