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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 _ 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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  3. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
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  7. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    Fear prophets, Adso, 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."
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  8. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
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  9. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    Then why do you want to know?""Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
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  10. Umberto Eco _ The Name of the Rose

    Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means..."
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  11. 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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