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Author: Umberto Eco
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  1. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequentur. grasp the words, and the subject will follow.
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  2. Umberto Eco _ Baudolino

    and I said to him when you learn to read then you learn everything you didnt know before. But when you write you write only what you know allready so patientia Im better off not knowing how to write because the ass is the ass"
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  3. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
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  4. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
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  5. Umberto Eco _ The Island of the Day Before

    It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
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  6. Umberto Eco _ Foucault's Pendulum

    Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.
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  7. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
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  8. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
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  9. Umberto Eco _ Six Walks in the Fictional

    To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative - the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.
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  10. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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  11. Umberto Eco _ Foucault's Pendulum

    We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
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  12. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.
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