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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
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.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
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.
Fear prophets 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.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
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.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
