“There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.”
— Umberto Eco
Author: Umberto Eco
Category: experience
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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: nature
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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: fear
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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: learning
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I have come to believe that the
“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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