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Umberto Eco has 276 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither...
— John Donne
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are…
— John Donne
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Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth…
— Henry David Thoreau
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All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are…
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And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door;…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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