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Told Quotes by Umberto Eco
- I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the…
- There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of…
- Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells…
- To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen…
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