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Umberto Eco Quotes

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels Picture Quote #1

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them Picture Quote #1

The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens? Picture Quote #1

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 a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience Picture Quote #1

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list Picture Quote #1

The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book Picture Quote #1

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You'll come back To me... It's written in the stars, you see, you'll come back. You'll come back, it's a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you Picture Quote #1

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed Picture Quote #1

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types Picture Quote #1

He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives Picture Quote #1

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text Picture Quote #1

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth Picture Quote #1

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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big Picture Quote #1

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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels (Umberto Eco Quotes) All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them (Umberto Eco Quotes) The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens? (Umberto Eco Quotes) 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 a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience (Umberto Eco Quotes) There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list (Umberto Eco Quotes) The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book (Umberto Eco Quotes) You'll come back To me... It's written in the stars, you see, you'll come back. You'll come back, it's a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you (Umberto Eco Quotes) Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed (Umberto Eco Quotes) Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types (Umberto Eco Quotes) He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives (Umberto Eco Quotes) The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text (Umberto Eco Quotes) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth (Umberto Eco Quotes) Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big (Umberto Eco Quotes)

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