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And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
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reason
inference
negation
proposition
critical-reasoning
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three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works.
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For the male who dominates and writes, or by writing dominates, the woman has always been portrayed with hostility from the earliest times. Let us not be deceived by angelic descriptions of women. On the contrary, precisely because great literature is dominated by sweet, gentle creatures, the world of satire--which is that of the popular imagination--continually demonizes the woman, from antiquity, through the Middle Ages, and up to modern ..
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And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.
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young-vs-old
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de77cbb
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The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.
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82dabce
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Oyle bir an geliyor ki,insanin icinde bir seyler kiriliyor;ne enerji ne istek kaliyor. Yasamak gerekir diyorlar ama yasamak son vadede intihara surukleyen bir sorun
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On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?
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But it's atheists who say that the world wasn't made by anyone, and you say you're not an atheist . . ." I'm not because I can't bring myself to believe that all these things we see around us--the way trees and fruits grow, and the solar system, and our brains--came about by chance. They're too well made. And therefore there must have been a creating mind. God."
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The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance.
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We were interrupted by a girl with a strawberry birthmark on her nose; she had some papers in her hand and asked if we had signed the petition for the imprisoned Argentinean comrades. Belbo signed without reading it. "They're even worse of than I am," he said to Diotallevi, who was regarding him with a bemused expression. "He can't sign," Belbo said to the girl. "He belongs to a small Indian sect that forbids its members to write their own ..
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They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I'm a cat that hit its nose.
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It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...
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Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
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inquisition
heresy
revolution
power
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Jacopo, while I could still read, during these past months, I read dictionaries, I studied histories of words, to understand what was happening in my body. I studied like a rabbi. Have you ever reflected that the linguistic term `metathesis' is similar to the oncological term `metastasis'? What is the metathesis? Instead of `clasp' one says `claps.' Instead of `beloved' one says `bevoled.' It's the temurah. The dictionary says that metathes..
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To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.
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man
nature
culture
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The simple are meat for slaughter, to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power, and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use.
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the-simple
using-the-mob
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The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.
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templars
venerate
mystery
unknown
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible, he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed. He doesn't boast of his own death or of others'. But he doesn't repent. He suffers and keeps his mouth shut; if anything, others then exploit him, making him a myth, while he, the man worthy of esteem, was only a poor creature who reacted with dignity ..
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There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.
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Umberto Eco |
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The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.
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Here he was holding the clear proof of the existence of other skies, but at the same time without having to ascend beyond the celestial spheres, for he intuited many worlds in a piece of coral. Was there any need to calculate the number of forms which the atoms of the Universe could create--burning at the stake all those who said their number was not finite--when it sufficed to meditate for years on one of these marine objects to realize ho..
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And don't succumb too much to the spell of these cases. I have seen many other fragments of the cross, in other churches. If all were genuine, our Lord's torment could not have been on a couple of planks nailed together, but on an entire forest.' 'Master!' I said, shocked. 'So it is, Adso. And there are ever richer treasuries. Some time ago, in the cathedral of Cologne, I saw the skull of John the Baptist at the age of twelve.' 'Really?' I ..
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humour
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What am I?...I say so inasmuch as I am the memory of all my past moments, the sum of everything I remember. If I say I in the sense of that something that is here at this moment and is not the mainmast or the coral, then I am the sum of what I feel now. But what is what I feel now? It is the sum of those relations between presumed indivisibles that have been arranged in that system of relations in that special order that is my body.
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The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.
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Hay cosas que ves venir, no es que te enamores porque te enamoras, te enamoras porque en ese periodo tenias una desesperada necesidad de enamorarte. En los periodos en que tienes ganas de enamorarte debes fijarte bien donde te metes: como haber bebido un filtro, de esos que hacen que uno se enamore del primero que pasa. Podria ser un ornitorrinco.
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It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the reader. Moral: there exist obsessive ideas, they are never personal; books talk among themselves, and any true detection should prove that we are the guilty party.
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responsibility
writing
readership
paradoxes
detective-stories
guilt
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History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.
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we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).
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This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss, but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, must exist according to structures defined at the outset (we have to know whether it is a world where a princess can be restored to life only by the kiss of a prince, or also by that of a witch, and whether the princ..
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The good thing about the studium is the that you learn from your teachers, true, but even more from your fellows, especially those older than you, when they tell you what they have read, and you discover that the world must be full of wondrous things and to know them all - since a lifetime will not be a enough for you to travel through the whole world - you can only read all the books.
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A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.
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The "thesis neurosis" has begun: the student abandons the thesis, returns to it, feels unfulfilled, loses focus, and uses his thesis as an alibi to avoid other challenges in his life that he is too cowardly to address. This student will never graduate." --
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El diablo no es el principe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espiritu, la fe sin sonrisa, la verdad jamas tocada por la duda.
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El alma humana es la verdadera copula del mundo porque, por un lado, se dirige hacia lo divino y, por el otro, se introduce en el cuerpo y domina la naturaleza.
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cuerpo
divino
naturaleza
mundo
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The "thesis neurosis" has begun: the student abandons the thesis, returns to it, feels unfulfilled, loses focus, and uses his thesis as an alibi to avoid other challenges in his life that he is too cowardly to address. This student will never graduate."
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What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures?
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Biblioteki -- to neimovirna shtuka: chasom zdaiet'sia, nibi stoyish na vokzal'nii platformi i, chitaiuchi z knizhkovikh storinok pro ekzotichni mistsia, podorozhuiesh dalekimi krayinami.
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The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things -- an intended pear does not nourish us. And ..
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Poor boy," the libertine then said, "he builds machines to count the infinite, and we have terrified him with the eternal silence of too many infinities. Voila, the end of a fine vocation."
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W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that the characters have an autonomous life and the author, in a kind of trance, makes them behave as they themselves direct him. That kind of nonsense belongs in term papers. The fact is that the characters are obliged to act according to the laws of..
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writing
fictional-universe
creative-process
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the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved
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ebook
inventions
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Umberto Eco |
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He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss of a father, for it will never happen a second time: might as well leave the wound open.
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A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a
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Tak chto zhe, - osmelilsia ia sprosit', - vy eshche daleki ot resheniia?>> <>. <> <>. <> <
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