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    Umberto Eco

    Read through the most famous quotes from Umberto Eco




    But this lump does not absolve me, because I got it through heedlessness, not though courage. I run my tongue over my lip and what do I do? I write. But bad literature brings no redemption. ↗


    — Umberto Eco

    #courage

    Todo concepto filosófico, tomado en su sentido más genérico, explica cualquier cosa. ↗


    — Umberto Eco

    #filosofía #age

    Translation is the art of failure. ↗


    — Umberto Eco

    #failure #translation

    Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun. ↗


    — Umberto Eco

    #evil #religion #religion

    Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial. ↗


    — Umberto Eco

    #dreams

    De mens bedrijft het kwaad nooit zo hartstochtig en vol overgave als wanneer hij dat doet uit godsdienstige overtuiging. ↗


    — Umberto Eco

    #godsdienst #religion #men

    How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull. ↗


    — Umberto Eco

    #peace #love

    Simple mechanisms do not love. ↗


    — Umberto Eco

    #umberto-eco #love

    As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. ↗


    — Umberto Eco

    #call #features #human #human language #i

    After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. ↗


    — Umberto Eco

    #book #bookstore #content #few #glance






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    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.

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