Italian - Novelist | January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016
We like lists because we don't want to die.
Umberto Eco
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Human beings are religious animals.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.
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Our life is full of empty space.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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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.
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
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