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> [“I transcribe my text with no concern for timeliness. In the years when I discovered the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/i-transcribe-my-text-with-no-concern-for-timeliness-in-the-years-when/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

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> [“Good libraries hold several millions of books: even if we read a book a day, we would read only 365 a year,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/good-libraries-hold-several-millions-of-books-even-if-we-read-a-book/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

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> [“In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/in-the-years-when-i-discoverd-the-abb-vallet-volume-there-was-a/)

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## Other authors on Ten years

## More by Umberto Eco

> [I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/i-think-that-at-a-certain-age-say-fifteen-or-sixteen-poetry-is-like/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/followers-of-the-occult-believe-in-only-what-they-already-know-and-in/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/this-has-nothing-to-do-with-realism-even-if-it-explains-also-realism/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/there-s-nothing-in-this-world-that-demands-more-caution-than-the/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/the-book-is-like-the-spoon-scissors-the-hammer-the-wheel-once/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/no-algorithm-exists-for-the-metaphor-nor-can-a-metaphor-be-produced/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/with-all-of-its-defects-the-global-market-makes-war-less-likely-even/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/the-fundamental-principle-that-governs-or-ought-to-govern-human/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/any-fact-becomes-important-when-it-s-connected-to-another/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/american-coffee-can-be-a-pale-solution-served-at-a-temperature-of-100/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/listening-doesn-t-mean-trying-to-understand-anything-however-trifling/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/they-say-that-a-cat-if-it-falls-from-a-window-and-hits-its-nose-can/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/there-are-magic-moments-involving-great-physical-fatigue-and-intense/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/all-poets-write-bad-poetry-bad-poets-publish-them-good-poets-burn-them/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

> [There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/there-are-four-kinds-of-people-in-this-world-cretins-fools-morons-and/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

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