Umberto Eco Quotes - Page 15

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

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  Sadness, Fate, Destiny

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• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

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  Book, Fantasy Novels, Comic

  "Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interview with Azam Zanganeh, www.theparisreview.org. 2008.

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• I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

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  Writing, Hands, Left Hand

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• The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

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  War, United States, Needed

  "Umberto Eco: 'It's culture, not war, that cements European identity'". Interview with Gianni Riotta - La Stampa, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

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  War, China, Defects

  "Umberto Eco: 'It's culture, not war, that cements European identity'". Interview with Gianni Riotta - La Stampa, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like an avowed atheist who sees the Devil at night, you reason: He certainly doesn't exist; this is therefore an illusion, perhaps a result of indigestion. But the Devil is sure that he exists, and believes in his upside-down theology. What, then, will frighten him? You make the sign of the cross, and he vanishes in a puff of brimstone.

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  Atheist, Believe, Book

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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  Thinking, Past, People

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• ...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).

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  Stars, Believe, Sky

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.443, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

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  Eden, Dimensions, Ethical

  Umberto Eco (2002). “Five Moral Pieces”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

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  Mind, Machines, World

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• I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

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  Morning, Reading, Paper

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Sometimes my characters are not myself.

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  Character, Sometimes

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

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  Thinking, Amusing, Certain

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Philosopher

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

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  Trying, Purpose, World

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

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  Character, Writing, Facts

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

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  Book, Telling The Truth, Concern

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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