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Read through the most famous quotes from Umberto Eco
Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy? ↗
The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed. ↗
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day. ↗
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ↗
Eco has also written academic texts children's books and many essays. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose) an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction biblical analysis medieval studies and literary theory. Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross (Italian pronunciation: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛko]; born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician essayist philosopher literary critic and novelist.
His most recent novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery) released in 2010 was a best-seller. Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross (Italian pronunciation: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛko]; born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician essayist philosopher literary critic and novelist. He is founder of the Dipartimento di Comunicazione at the University of the Republic of San Marino President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici University of Bologna member of the Accademia dei Lincei (since November 2010) and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College University of Oxford.