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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
To survive, you must tell stories.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
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.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
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.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
