"I felt like poisoning a monk." — Umberto Eco
"I felt like poisoning a monk."
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Umberto Eco
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
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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…
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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…
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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in…
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will…
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can…
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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
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It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like -…
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I…
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