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I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.
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faith
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It is the logic of research and discovery that is tortuous, because it is the logic of science. Whereas the logic of knowledge needs no discovery, because it knows already.
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Umberto Eco |
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It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.
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newspaper
newspapers
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Umberto Eco |
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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 the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of t..
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Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false. But I was there that day, so now I am where I am.
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Nor did I affirm it openly, in so many words. I did not deny it, true. Who am I to express judgments on the plots of the Evil One, especially," he added, and seemed to want to insist on this reason, "in cases where those who had initiated the inquisition, the bishop, the city magistrates, and the whole populace, perhaps the accused themselves, truly wanted to feel the presence of the Devil? There, perhaps the only real proof of the presence..
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So in the library there are also books containing falsehoods. ..." "Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the Creator is revealed. And by divine plan, too, there exist also books by wizards, the cabalas of the Jews, the fables of pagan poets, the lies of the infidels. It was the firm and holy conviction of those who founded the abbey and sustained it over th..
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Por que Deus e o ser perfeitissimo? Porque, se fosse imperfeitissimo, seria meu primo Gustavo.
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Umberto Eco |
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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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Nu intelegeam niciodata cand glumea. Pe la noi, cand se glumeste, se spune ceva, apoi se rade zgomotos, incat toti sa poata lua parte la gluma. Guglielmo radea, in schimb, numai cand spunea lucruri serioase si ramanea foarte serios cand de fapt glumea.
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I say that many of these heresies, independently of the doctrines they assert, encounter success among the simple because they suggest to such people the possibility of a different life. I say that very often the simple do not know much about doctrine. I say that often hordes of simple people have confused Catharist preaching with that of the Patarines, and these together with that of the Spirituals. The life of the simple, Abo, is not illu..
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heresy
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daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
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Umberto Eco |
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Rzeczywiscie, czesto sie zdarza, ze idzie sie do biblioteki, bo chce sie ksiazke o znanym tytule, ale glowna funkcja biblioteki, a przynajmniej funkcja biblioteki w moim domu i w domach wszystkich znajomych, jakich mozemy odwiedzac, jest odkrywanie ksiazek, ktorych istnienia sie nie podejrzewalo, a ktore, jak sie okazuje, sa dla nas niezwykle wazne.
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umberto-eco
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writing a thesis is like writing a book, working incrementally with the professor is a communication exercise that assumes the existence of an audience,
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Es un hombre... extrano. -Es, o ha sido, en muchos aspectos, un gran hombre. Pero precisamente por eso es extrano. Solo los hombres pequenos parecen normales.
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But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to be)? Why have I not been favored like others who are less deserving? No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.
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life
misery
fortune
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The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemurs who want your ruin, the more they will be outcast.
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racism
outcasts
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Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats. Talking outside the glass when someone else blunders helps to change the subject. But fools don't interest us, either. They're never creative, their talent is all secondhand, so they don't submit manuscripts to publishers. Fools don't claim that cats bark, but they talk abou..
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The devil is not the prince of matter; the devil is the arrogance of spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns from whence he came.
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doubt
faith
evil
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Chatter then will be phatic discourse that has become an end in itself, but sports chatter is something more, a continuous phatic discourse that deceitfully passes itself off as talk of the City and its Ends. Born as the raising to the nth power of that initial (and rational) waste that is sports recreation, sports chatter is the glorification of Waste, and therefore the maximum point of Consumption. On it and in it the consumer civilizatio..
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We've been led astray by rationalist thought," Diotallevi said. "I keep telling you."
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todo ideales y nada de ideas.
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Unutusun teknigi yoktur, hala rastgele, dogal sureclere bagliyiz, beyinsel lezyonlar, unutkanlik ya da ne bileyim, yolculuk, alkol, uykuya kacis, canina kiyma gibi dogaclamalara.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. This
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Mas talvez naquele momento ele nao tenha sido capaz de nenhum calculo,o grito que lhe saiu da boca era o grito de sua alma e nele e com ele descarregava anos de longos e secretos remorsos.Ou seja,apos uma vida de incertezas,entusiasmos e desilusoes,vilezas e traicoes,posto diante da inelutabilidade de sua ruina,ele decidia professar a fe de sua juventude,sem mais perguntar se era justa ou errada,mas para mostrar a si mesmo que era capaz de ..
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someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.
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thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck, thy lips drop as the honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue, the smell of thy breath is of apples, thy two breasts are clusters of grapes, thy palate a heady wine that goes straight to my love and flows over my lips and teeth.... A fountain sealed, spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, myrrh and aloes, I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey, I ha..
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L'essere umano e davvero una creatura straordinaria. Ha scoperto il fuoco, edificato citta, scritto magnifiche poesie, dato interpretazioni del mondo, inventato mitologie etc... Ma allo stesso tempo non ha smesso di fare la guerra ai suoi simili, non ha smesso di ingannarsi, di distruggere l'ambiente circostante. La somma algebrica fra vigore intellettuale e coglioneria da un risultato quasi nullo. Dunque, decidendo di parlare di imbecillit..
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human-being
stupidity
genialità
stupidita
genius
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As Clark Kent I take care of misunderstood young geniuses; as Superman I punish justly misunderstood old geniuses. I
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so we must spell out its faithful signals even when they seem obscure to us and as if amalgamated with a will wholly bent on evil.
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Signora, there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart....
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l shya 'rw`u min lltq ljmyl lfshilayn
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الفشل
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Ht~ lan l tSlH lhwtf ljwWal@ lWa ll'zwj lkhy'nyn , ldhyn ytmnaWwn tjnWub stkhdm hwtf lmnzl , w rbWm llsmkryWyn 'yDan , l'nWh ttyHu ltSl bhm fy 'yWa@i lHZ@ fy 'thn sayrhm
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الهواتف-الجوالة
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La juventud ya no quiere aprender nada, la ciencia esta en decadencia, el mundo marcha patas arriba, los ciegos guian a otros ciegos y los despenan en los abismos, los pajaros se arrojan antes de haber echado a volar, el asno toca la lira, los bueyes bailan, Maria ya no ama la vida contemplativa y Marta ya no ama la vida activa, Lea es esteril, Raquel esta llena de lascivia, Caton frecuenta los lupanares, Lucrecio se convierte en mujer.
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For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep. Hence the Jews. Divine providence has given them to us, and so, by God, let us use them, and pray there's always some Jew to fear and to hate. We need an enemy to give people hope.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously three old owls on a chest of drawers were screwing the daughter of the doctor. But then the mother called them, colorless green ideas slepp furiously.
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irony
poetry
sestina
linguistics
semantics
pastiche
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Vai via ora," mi disse in fretta, "ti ho detto quello che volevi sapere. Di qui il coro degli angeli, di la la gola dell'inferno."
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some impudent young Parisian had made a malicious reference in his presence to the latest theories suggesting a link between primitive man and lower species. Dumas replied: "Yes, sir, I do indeed come from the monkey. But you, sir, are returning to one!" He" --
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Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion?
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Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe--with charity--that there is still room for Hope.
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history
christianity
reality
religion
hope
parousia
charity
catholicism
christian
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Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believers and nonbelievers? What can it be based on now? Does an idea of the end, one that does not imply disinterest in the future but rather a constant examination of the errors of the past, have a critical function? If not, it would be perfectly all right to accept the approach of the end, even without thinking about it, sitting in front of our TV..
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responsibility
history
future
past
religion
hope
life
end-of-time
end-of-the-world
entertainment
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I followed the curve that rose from the capitals of the semicircle of columns and ran along the ribs of the vault toward the key, mirroring the mystery of the ogive, that supreme static hypocrisy which rests on an absence, making the columns believe that they are thrusting the great ribs upward and the ribs believe that they are holding the columns down, the vault being both all and noting, at once cause and effect.
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During the day you will approach the frog several times and will utter words of worship. And you will ask it to work the miracles you wish.... Meanwhile you will cut a cross on which to sacrifice it. --From a ritual of Aleister Crowley
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Eight, the number of perfection for every tetragon; four, the number of the Gospels; five, the number of the zones of the world; seven, the number of the gifts of the Holy Ghost.
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