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Among Quotes by Umberto Eco
- When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us…
- Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
- There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than…
- Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
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- Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
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