"Our life is full of empty space." — Umberto Eco
"Our life is full of empty space."
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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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More Empty Quotes
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one of 2,485 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
— Pietro Aretino
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art…
— Saint Augustine
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
— Russell Baker
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never…
— Amelia Barr
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism…
— Annie Besant
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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of…
— Annie Besant
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
— Michael Bloomberg
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I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not…
— Ben Affleck
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