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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.
To survive, you must tell stories.
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.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
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.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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.
