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Way Quotes by Umberto Eco
- Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
- We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore,…
- The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting…
- Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom
- I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
- Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after…
- The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the…
- I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give…
- I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and…
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