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Long Quotes by Umberto Eco
- From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence…
- A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that…
- History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing…
- To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but…
- It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.
- 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…
- We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the…
- And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already…
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