Quotes by Umberto Eco
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good ...
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There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. ...
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Fear prophets 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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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, ...
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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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 ...
