Umberto Eco Quotes

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

~ Umberto Eco

Adventurous Charisma Community Constitutions Desires Developed Favours Highly History Instinct Interests Long Men Own Personal Power Pursued Rich Who

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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

~ Umberto Eco

Again Always Hits Homer People Will Work

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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

~ Umberto Eco

Describe Describing Does Enough Feel He How Looking Never Nevertheless People Person See Sees Simply Sky Stopping Thinks Tongues

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Human beings are religious animals.

~ Umberto Eco

Animals Beings Human Human Beings Religious

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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

~ Umberto Eco

Could Had Paper Plastic Shower Work

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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

~ Umberto Eco

Ages Develop Developed Middle Middle Ages Passion People Same Some Some People Way

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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

~ Umberto Eco

Doing End Ghosts Having In The End Million Million People Online People Point See Suburbs Talking

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I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

~ Umberto Eco

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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

~ Umberto Eco

Am Feel Hand I Am I Feel Left Novels Only Scholar Who Writes

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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

~ Umberto Eco

Freedom Having Lost Opinion

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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

~ Umberto Eco

Admit Basics Before Knew Only Peace Read Then War

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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

~ Umberto Eco

Because Brain Excites Helps Like Me Work

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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

~ Umberto Eco

Anybody Doing Fiction Great I Love I Write Living Love Novel Private Private World Secrecy Sensation Tell World Write Writing

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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

~ Umberto Eco

Black Black And White Channel Could Educational Entertaining Evening Four Important Opera Plays Shakespeare Started Television Three Tragedies White Work Years

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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

~ Umberto Eco

After Book I Think Judged Later Reading Should Think Years

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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

~ Umberto Eco

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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

~ Umberto Eco

I Think Myself Novels Professor Serious Think Weekend Who Writes

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I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

~ Umberto Eco

Age Becoming Belonged Catholic Even Fervent Leaders National Organizations Until

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I write what I write.

~ Umberto Eco

I Write Write

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If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

~ Umberto Eco

Books Buy Consider Idiocy People Tax Vanity

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05 January, 1932

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19 February, 2016

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