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Umberto Eco

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It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.


— Umberto Eco


#art

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.


— Umberto Eco


#prophets #religion #religion

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.


— Umberto Eco


#writing #art

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.


— Umberto Eco


#labyrinths #possibilities #beauty

I felt like poisoning a monk.


— Umberto Eco


#writing #motivational

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.


— Umberto Eco


#weakness #courage

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.


— Umberto Eco


#love

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.


— Umberto Eco


#poetry #talent #youth #age

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.


— Umberto Eco


#teaching #television #education

Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion. (Casablanca, or, The Clichés Are Having a Ball)


— Umberto Eco


#clichés #art






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Eco has also written academic texts children's books and many essays. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose) an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction biblical analysis medieval studies and literary theory. Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross (Italian pronunciation: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛko]; born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician essayist philosopher literary critic and novelist.

His most recent novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery) released in 2010 was a best-seller. Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross (Italian pronunciation: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛko]; born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician essayist philosopher literary critic and novelist. He is founder of the Dipartimento di Comunicazione at the University of the Republic of San Marino President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici University of Bologna member of the Accademia dei Lincei (since November 2010) and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College University of Oxford.

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