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Komunistite tv'rdiat, che religiiata e opium't za narodite. Viarno e, zashchoto pomaga da se d'rzhat izk'so podanitsite ...
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The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.
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sex
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556abd1
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William was deeply humiliated. I tried to comfort him; I told him that for three days he had been looking for a text in Greek and it was natural in the course of his examination for him to discard all books not in Greek. And he answered that it is certainly human to make mistakes, but there are some human beings who make more than others, and they are called fools, and he was one of them, and he wondered whether it was worth the effort to s..
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Umberto Eco |
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E prote arete enos timiou anthropou, einai e periphronese gia te threskeia, pou thelei apo mas na phobomaste to pio phusiko pragma tou kosmou, to thanato, na misoume to mono oraio pragma pou mas edose e moira, te zoe, kai na elpizoume s' ena ourano opou sten aionia makarioteta zoun mono oi planetes, pou den ekhoun oute epibrabeuseis oute katadikes, ma monakha ten aionia kinese tous sten agkalia tou kenou. Na eiste dunatoi opos oi sophoi tes..
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Umberto Eco |
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Aristotle says in the book of secrets that communicating too many arcana of nature and art breaks a celestial seal and many evils can ensue. Which does not mean that secrets must not be revealed, but that the learned must decide when and how.
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Umberto Eco |
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means, a precept that the commentators of the holy books had very clearly in mind.
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Umberto Eco |
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For three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color. - William
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As a little drop of water added to a quantity of wine is completely dispersed and takes on the color and taste of wine, as red-hot iron becomes like molten fire losing its original form, as air when it is inundated with the sun's light is transformed into total splendor and clarity so that it no longer seems illuminated but, rather, seems to be light itself, so I felt myself die of tender liquefaction, and I had only the strength left to mu..
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Umberto Eco |
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Her yerde erinc aradim, ama hicbir yerde bulamadim, bir kitapla cekildigim koseden baska.
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Umberto Eco |
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Sir," Saint-Savin replied, "the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life." --
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365edba
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Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature's ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.
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Umberto Eco |
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I transcribe my text with no concern for timeliness. In the years when I discovered 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. And so I now feel free to tell, for sheer narrative pleasure, the story of Ads..
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Umberto Eco |
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Atat de mare e puterea adevarului care, precum binele, se raspandeste de la sine.
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truth
power
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All the same," I said, "when you read the prints in the snow and the evidence of the branches, you did not yet know Brunellus. In a certain sense those prints spoke of all horses, or at least all horses of that breed. Mustn't we say, then, that the book of nature speaks to us only of essences, as many distinguished theologians teach?" "Not entirely, dear Adso," my master replied. "True, that kind of print expressed to me, if you like, the i..
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The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?
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monks
pedophilia
misogyny
hypocrisy
lust
vice
sin
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And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?
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humanity
fear
human-frailty
weakness
sin
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To be intensely educated about the horror of sin and then to be conquered by it. I tell myself that it must be prohibition that kindles fantasy
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True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then a place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a recept..
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Quase inebriado,gozava entao da sua presenca nas coisas que via,e atraves delas desejava-a,satisfazendo-me a vista delas.E,no entanto,sentia uma dor,porque ao mesmo tempo sofria por uma ausencia,mesmo sendo feliz com tantos fantasmas de uma presenca.
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lfshlwn - sh'nhm sh'n l`SmyWyn - ymlkwn m`rfa 'kthr mn lmutfwWqyn , dh knta tryd 'n ttfwWaq f`lyk 'n t`rf shyy'an b`ynh , dwn D`@ lwqt fy m`rf@ kl shy ; mt`@ lm`rf@ mkhSWS@ llfshlyn , klWm 'kthrta min m`rf@ l'shy , srt l'shy fy Gyr Tryqh
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failure-and-attitude
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aa2e689
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But this lump does not absolve me, because I got it through heedlessness, not though courage. I run my tongue over my lip and what do I do? I write. But bad literature brings no redemption.
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Umberto Eco |
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Sir, be proud: today you came close to a happy death; and behave in the future with the same nonchalance, knowing that the soul dies with the body. Go then to death after having savored life. We are animals among animals, all children of matter, save that we are the more disarmed. But since, unlike animals, we know we must die, let us prepare for that moment by enjoying the life that has been given us by chance and for chance.
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Umberto Eco |
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The Massalians are not dualists but monarchians, and they have dealings with the infernal powers, and in fact some texts call them Borborites, from borboros, filth, because of the unspeakable things they do." "What do they do?" "The usual unspeakable things. Men and women hold in the palm of their hand, and raise to heaven, their own ignominy, namely, sperm or menstruum, then eat it, calling it the Body of Christ. And if by chance a woman i..
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transubstantiation
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We'll have to consult Aglie. I doubt that even he knows all these organizations." "Want to bet? They're his daily bread. But we can put him to the test. Let's add a sect that doesn't exist. Founded recently." I recalled the curious question of De Angelis, whether I had ever heard of the Tres. And I said: "Tres." "What's that?" Belbo asked. "If it's an acrostic, there has to be a subtext," Diotallevi said. "Otherwise my rabbis would not have..
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Os homens nunca praticam o mal tao completa e entusiasticamente como quando o fazem por conviccao religiosa.
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Umberto Eco |
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I am not I who thinks,but I am the Void, or extension, that thinks me. And so this composite is an accident, in which Void and extension linger for the blink of an eye, to be able afterwards to return to thinking otherwise. In this great Void of the Void, the one thing that truly is, is the history of this evolution in numberless transitory compositions...Compositions of what? Of the one great Nothingness, which is the substance of the whol..
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recognize the evidence through which the world speaks to us like a great book...
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Umberto Eco |
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Humbesit ashtu si autodidaktet kane gjithnje njohuri me te medha se fitimtaret. Nese deshiron te jesh fitimtar, duhet te dish vetem nje gje e te mos humbasesh kohen per te mesuar gjithcka. Kenaqesia e erudicionit eshte vetem per humbesit. Sa me shume te dish, aq me keq mund te te shkojne gjerat.
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shqip
fituesi
humbësi
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Umberto Eco |
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a5be243
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Born blind, he could move in that handsome luminous space (yes, he said luminous) of his church, seeing, as he said, the sun with his skin
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Umberto Eco |
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most of them won't have a book in the house, though, when they have to, they'll talk about the latest book that's selling millions of copies around the world. Our readers may not read books, but they are fascinated by great eccentric painters who sell for billions.
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Umberto Eco |
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Kakto otiavleniiat ateist, koito vizhda noshchem diavola i bezbozhnicheski razs'zhdava taka: "Toi bezsporno ne s'shchestvuva, sigurno e ot khranosmilaneto, no rogatiiat ne go znae i si viarva v svoiata preob'rnata teologiia. Koe bi moglo na nego, uvereniia, che s'shchestvuva, da vd'khne strakh?" Prekr'stvash se i toi, doverchiv, izchezva sred seren oblak."
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A stiga be! - kaza Belbo. Samo piemontets mozhe da razbere chuvstvoto, koeto se vlaga v tozi izraz na uchtivo udivlenie. Nito edin ot negovite ekvivalenti na drugi ezitsi ili dialekti ne bimog'l da v'zproizvede v'rkhovnoto bezrazlichie, fatalizma, s koito toi utv'rzhdava nepoklatimoto ubezhdenie, che drugite sa s'zdaniia na edno tv'rde nepokhvatno bozhestvo.
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Umberto Eco |
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I would like to tell about war and friendship among the various parts of the body, the arms that do battle with the feet, and the veins that make love with the arteries, or the bones with the marrow. All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.' ..
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Umberto Eco |
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I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune.
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Umberto Eco |
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d1059ef
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The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of disequilibrium has no more demonstrable value than the fact that in the same period humanity learned to resolve states of psychological imbalance by using alcohol or other equally devastating substances.
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war
philosophy
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kn `ly dhan 'n 'shwsh lqry', 'm 'n fyjb 'n 'HtfZ b'fkr wDH@ m 'mkn, w'n 'tHdth `n 'mkn wfDt mHswb@ bdq@ fy'q@.
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Umberto Eco |
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A te inchipui un element necesar in ordinea universului echivaleaza, pentru noi, oamenii cu lecturi serioase, cu ceea ce e superstitia pentru analfabeti. Nu se schimba lumea cu ideile. Persoanele cu putine idei sunt mai putin supuse erorii, se iau dupa ceea ce fac toti si nu deranjeaza pe nimeni, si reusesc, se imbogatesc, ajung la pozitii solide, deputati, oameni cu decoratii, oameni de litere renumiti, academicieni, jurnalisti. Poti sa ma..
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politics
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ebf77f9
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Two very beautiful naked girls are crouched facing each other. They touch each other sensually, they kiss each other's breasts lightly, with the tip of the tongue.
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Umberto Eco |
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in a story there is always a reader, and this reader is a fundamental ingredient not only of the process of storytelling but also of the tale itself. Today,
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Umberto Eco |
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Not that he felt any particular love for himself, but his dislike of others induced him to make the best of his own company.
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Umberto Eco |
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For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.
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As long as you remain in your private vacuum, you can pretend you are in harmony with the One. But the moment you pick up the clay, electronic or otherwise, you become a demiurge, and he who embarks on the creation of worlds is already tainted with corruption and evil.
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But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery.
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3fc1967
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Todo concepto filosofico, tomado en su sentido mas generico, explica cualquier cosa.
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filosofia
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