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Love Quotes by Umberto Eco
- The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell…
- The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must…
- If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
- The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.
- The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
- The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.
- You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you…
- We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
- The followers must feel besieged.
- I write what I write.
- Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
- Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies…
- Translation is the art of failure.
- Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
- I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
- Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
- Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
- I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
- It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
- Libraries can take the place of God.
- My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
- The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
- The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
- When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in…
- I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world.…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide