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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
To survive, you must tell stories.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
