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l`lh shykhwkhty lHly@ hy lty tj`lny 'sh`r - w'n athm fy dhlk - b'n kl m `shth fy shbby kn jmylan wSlHan .
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When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.
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Umberto Eco |
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166da84
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The simple cannot choose their personal heresy, Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land, who passes through their village or stops in their square.
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Umberto Eco |
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living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.
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Umberto Eco |
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e33db71
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I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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Umberto Eco |
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feca16f
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What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?
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human-nature
irony
man
saints
st-francis
wolf
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48181c9
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the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.
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There, I said to myself, are the reasons for the silence and darkness that surround the library: it is the preserve of learning but can maintain this learning unsullied only if it prevents its reaching anyone at all, even the monks themselves. Learning is not like a coin, which remains whole even through the most infamous transactions; it is, rather, like a very handsome dress, which is worn out through use and ostentation. Is not a book li..
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I was dozing, and the clock woke me. I didn't hear the first few chimes distinctly, that is to say, I didn't count them. But as soon as I decided to count I realized that there had already been three, so I was able to count four, five, and so on. I understood that I could say four and then wait for the fifth, because one, two, and three had passed, and I somehow knew that. If the fourth chime had been the first I was conscious of, I would h..
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tlk lmth@ hy Swr@ mn hdh l`lm: fsyH@ lmn yryd ldkhwl , Dyq@ lmn yrGb fy lkhrwj
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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
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pages
sin
virtue
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The library is testimony to truth and to error,
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Umberto Eco |
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Tat ca moi thu, ke ca co ve tam phao, mot ngay nao do cung co the tro nen huu ich. Dieu quan trong la biet duoc dieu ma nguoi khac khong biet la ban biet.
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It's true, I'd never understood whether this vogue for apologising is a sign of humility or of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it. It reminds me of the old joke about a cowboy riding across the prairie who hears a voice from heaven telling him to go to Abilene, then at Abilene the voice tells him to go into the saloon and put all his money on number five. Tempted by the voice, h..
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are a bunch of practical jokers who meet somewhere and decide to have a contest. They invent a character, agree on a few basic facts, and then each one's free to take it and run with it. At the end, they'll see who's done the best job. The four stories are picked up by some friends who act as critics: Matthew is fairly realistic, but insists on that Messiah business too much: Mark isn't bad, just a little slopp..
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And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter!" "The men of my islands are all a bit mad," William said proudly."
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british-humour
humor
the-british-are-mad
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I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).
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creation
writing
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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past ("en me retracant ces details, j'en suis a me demander s'ils sont reels, ou bien si je les ai reves"). As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbe de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten."
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dreams
imagination
magic
visions
writing
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I didn't know how to define it -- hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism? -- this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned.
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E nevoie de un dusman ca sa-i dai poporului o speranta. Cineva a spus ca patriotismul e ultimul refugiu al canaliilor: cine nu are principii morale se infasoara de obicei intr-un steag, iar bastarzii fac intotdeauna apel la puritatea stirpei lor. Identitatea nationala este ultima resursa a dezmostenitilor. Or, simtul identitatii se intemeiaza pe ura, ura impotriva celui ce nu-i identic. Trebuie sa cultivi ura ca patos cetatenesc. Dusmanul e..
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ideology
national-identity
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He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
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Umberto Eco |
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What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game.
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And if it is possible that creatures live underwater, could not creatures also live under the earth, nations of salamanders capable of arriving, through their tunnels, at the central fire that animates the planet?
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If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.
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There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose and in his humor. On the other hand, I remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed Krupskaya all the time, you'd end up writing a lousy book like Materialism and Empiriocriticism.
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lenin
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It's so beautiful.
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dhn lmdh tryd 'n t`rf? - l'n l`lm lys fqT m`rf@ m ynbGy 'w m ymkn llnsn `mlh, bl w'yDan m`rf@ m hw fy mqdwr lnsn wlw 'nh m` dhlk l yjb `lyh `mlh. ldh knt 'qwl lywm llzjWj 'nh yjb `l~ l`lim 'n ykhfy bTryq@ m l'srr lty yktshfh, kyl yst`mlh lakhrwn l'GrD syy'@, wlkn yjb `lyh ktshfh.
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Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.
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gnomes
nazis
ss
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La desesperada soledad de las paralelas que no se encuentran jamas
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Umberto Eco |
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Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.
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The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, 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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Uber die deutsche Sprache: ,,Sie halten sich fur tief, weil ihre Sprache unklar ist, ihr fehlt die clarte der franzosischen Sprache, sie sagt nie exakt das, was sie sollte, so dass kein Deutscher jemals weiss, was er sagen wollte - und dann verwechselt er diese Undeutlichkeit mit Tiefe. Es ist mit Deutschen wie mit Frauen, man gelangt bei ihnen nie auf den Grund
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languages
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And in that moment I experience a revelation. I realize now that it was a painful sense that the world is purposeless, the lazy fruit of a misunderstanding, but in that moment I was able to translate what I felt only as: "God does not exist."
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luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
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With Germans, as with women, you never get to the point.
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Will we be happier afterwards? Or will be have lost the freshness of those who are privileged to experience art as real life, where we enter after the trumps have been played, and we leave without knowing who's going to win or lose the game?
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Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
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learning
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She used to come home alone at two in the morning. When I asked if she wasn't afraid of sexual maniacs, she told me her method. When a sexual maniac approached, threatening, she would take his arm and say, "Come on, let's do it." And he would go away, bewildered. If you're a sexual maniac, you don't want sex; you want the excitement of its theft, you want the victim's resistance and despair. If sex is handed to you on a platter, here it is,..
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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. Mary no longer loves the contemplative life and Martha no longer loves the active life, Leah is sterile, Rachel has a carnal eye, Cato visits brothels, Lucretius becomes a woman. Ev..
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New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."
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new-orleans
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In the years when I discoverd the Abbe Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten years or more, the man of letters (restored to his loftiest dignity) can happily write out of pure love of writing.
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Porque no todas las verdades son para todos los oidos, ni todas las mentiras pueden ser reconocidas como tales por cualquier alma piadosa,
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At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated stumps of books.
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Adso of Melk: The Koran, the Bible of the infidels, a perverse book ... William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours.
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