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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 650adbe | Belho's | Umberto Eco | ||
| 452fe7d | Cand intra in joc stapanirea lucrurilor pamantesti, e foarte greu ca oamenii sa gandeasca asa cum cere dreptatea. | numele-trandafirului stapanire | Umberto Eco | |
| 3eb5438 | Sabemos muy bien como destruir una ciudad y como transportar informacion a bajo costo, pero todavia no tenemos ideas precisas sobre como conciliar el bienestar colectivo, el porvenir de los jovenes, la superpoblacion del mundo y la prolongacion de la vida.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 6007ea4 | l'Anticristo e veramente vicino perche nessuna sapienza gli fara piu da barriera. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 115cd68 | The Jesuits' strategy became clear to us when we discovered Father Barruel. Between 1797 and 1798, in response to the French Revolution, he writes his Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme, a real dime novel that begins, surprise surprise, with the Templars. After the burning of Molay, they transform themselves into a secret society to destroy monarchy and papacy and to create a world republic. In the eighteenth century they take.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| a48ba7d | I didn't like being his dear friend, but I went on listening to him. Giulio/Giulia, | Umberto Eco | ||
| 5e60fb1 | He raised the leather curtain and showed us into the next room. "Little study" is not how I would have described it; it was spacious, with walls of exquisite antique shelving crammed with handsomely bound books all of venerable age. What impressed me more than the books were some small glass cases filled with objects hard to identify--they looked like stones. And there were little animals, whether stuffed, mummified, or delicately reproduce.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| c907889 | We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong. | dictatorship failure problem solution | Umberto Eco | |
| 311ab32 | All'universita (allora, ma credo ancor oggi) le cose vanno all'opposto del mondo normale, non sono i figli che odiano i padri ma i padri che odiano i figli. | università | Umberto Eco | |
| b6e7ac3 | Poetry... it consumed Sappho's young years, it nourished Goethe's old age. Drug, the Greeks called it, both poison and medicine. | medicinea poetry poison | Umberto Eco | |
| c42f6da | It's quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education. | mortality | Umberto Eco | |
| be13431 | there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart... | truth | Umberto Eco | |
| a5bb90a | Whatever the rhythm was, luck rewarded us, because, wanting connections, we found connections -- always, everywhere, and between everything. The world exploded in a whirling network of kinships, where everything pointed to everything else, everything explained everything else... | umberto-eco | Umberto Eco | |
| 636290e | How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon! | darkness dungeon | Umberto Eco | |
| 9452104 | because one who knows not how to seek will never find... | seek | Umberto Eco | |
| bbabcbe | The trouble is," I said, "I can no longer distinguish the accidental difference among Waldensians, Catharists, the poor of Lyons, the Umiliati, the Beghards, Joachimites, Patarines, Apostles, Poor Lombards, Arnoldists, Williamites, Followers of the Free Spirit, and Luciferines. What" | Umberto Eco | ||
| ee43bdf | Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the world, every voice, every word written or spoken has more than its literal meaning, that it tells us a Secret. | fact meaning perspectives secret | Umberto Eco | |
| 011cbf6 | Haven't you grasped the significance of this discovery? In the Telluric Navel you place the most powerful valve, which enables you to foresee rain and drought, to release hurricanes, tidal waves, earthquakes, to split continents, sink islands (no doubt Atlantis disappeared in some such reckless experiment), raise mountain chains ...You realize the atomic bomb is nothing in comparison? Besides | Umberto Eco | ||
| 466a829 | He contado en varias ocasiones como deje de hacer fotografias en 1960, tras una visita a distintas catedrales francesas que fotografiaba enloquecido. De regreso, me encontre con que tenia una serie de fotografias mediocres y no recordaba nada de lo que habia visto. Tire la camara fotografica y en los sucesivos viajes me limite a registrar mentalmente lo que veia. Como recuerdo, mas para los demas que para mi, compraba excelentes postales. | Umberto Eco | ||
| b00aa9d | Is this possible? To spend a life punishing people who will never know they have been punished? So | Umberto Eco | ||
| 8f7e0d3 | He offers what is no longer a map, but a strange projection of the entire globe from the point of view of the Pole, the mystic Pole, naturally, and therefore from the point of view of an ideal Pendulum suspended from an ideal keystone. This is a map specially conceived to be placed beneath a Pendulum! It's obvious, undeniable; I can't imagine why somebody hasn't already seen-- | Umberto Eco | ||
| b3a71f8 | He looked around circumspectly, then introduced himself: Professor Camestres. At the question "Professor of what?" he made a vague gesture, as if urging us to exercise greater discretion." | Umberto Eco | ||
| ec54238 | all cops part shrink? | Mary Burton | ||
| 805dd0f | I just want the anger to go away...I want to be happy. I want to live. | Mary Burton | ||
| 9e7ae3d | Yes, she'd sure as hell made a lot of mistakes, but the last she checked no one could cast the first stone. | Mary Burton | ||
| e21a75c | Past colliding with present promised disaster. | Mary Burton | ||
| 111d44f | When Riley Tatum vanished twelve years ago, no one sounded an alarm. No one called the cops, gathered a search party, or posted flyers. She simply disappeared from the streets into an abyss. Swallowed whole. She should have died. Been long forgotten. But for reasons she didn't understand, the darkness spat her out. | Mary Burton | ||
| 5118b02 | Hudson's house. It was bungalow style with a stone facade, | Mary Burton | ||
| f720bd1 | It was always the shit you couldn't see that bit you in the ass. Novak's | Mary Burton | ||
| 4853040 | back in | Mary Burton | ||
| 39e0e4c | sensuality lingering | Mary Burton | ||
| 86ada49 | Why did perfect feel broken? | Mary Burton | ||
| bed712c | Make a wish and it will be granted along with all the unintended consequences. | Mary Burton | ||
| 003e8e6 | A barely tolerable world became unbearable. | Mary Burton | ||
| cc6119c | tighter command | Mary Burton | ||
| 74d78b1 | La confianza es un camino de dos direcciones... Todas las fortunas tienen sus limites. Hay cosas mas importantes en la vida que un trozo de cristal. Las palabras, por dulces que fueran, no suavizaban la perdida. El pasado es como un mal sueno. No se llega a olvidar del todo, pero con el tiempo pierde intensidad. las cosas no te consuelan cuando tienes miedo, ni te escuchan cuando necesitas hablar con alguien. Las cosas nunca me han hecho fe.. | Mary Burton | ||
| b3d2498 | about him. | Mary Burton | ||
| ee5fd29 | Yet each man kills the thing he loves . . . The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword." --Oscar Wilde" | Mary Burton | ||
| a13f433 | collecting evidence," Adler" | Mary Burton | ||
| ea8b351 | she slipped in behind two | Mary Burton | ||
| 863bc2b | Hayden. I'd | Mary Burton | ||
| fe05bcd | one | Mary Burton | ||
| 0db6daa | nails, | Mary Burton | ||
| a55be5f | Don't skip school," Sharp cautioned. "The monsters love the girls that color outside the lines." | Mary Burton |