Top 100 Quotes About Umberto
#1. I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Deborah Harkness
#2. For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umberto, were the garments of men who have no virtues left, not even shame.
Anne Fortier
#3. I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.
Vittorio De Sica
#4. Sara loved Nicolo's quiet affection far more than the yearning and lust she saw on Umberto's face.
Mirella Sichirollo Patzer
#5. Umberto Eco has called his poem 'the apotheosis of the virtual world'.
Jonathan Black
#6. The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an "anti-library," a vast collection of books he had not read, believing that one's personal trove should contain as much of what you don't know as possible. Some
Pamela Paul
#7. Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#8. Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.
Susan Stewart
#9. But he is an Italian," was Umberto's sensible reply. "He doesn't care if you break some law a little bit, as long as you wear beautiful shoes. Are you wearing beautiful shoes? Are you wearing the shoes I gave you? ... principessa?"
I looked down at my flip-flops. "I guess I'm toast.
Anne Fortier
#10. Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
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#11. But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?
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#12. Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
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#13. The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?
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#14. 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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#15. The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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#16. A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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#17. And that will be full knowledge, the learning of the singular.
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#18. He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss of a father, for it will never happen a second time: might as well leave the wound open.
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#19. I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.
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#20. The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.
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#21. 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.
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#22. when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;
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#23. Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.
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#24. Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
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#25. There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr.
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#26. 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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#27. He is always on the brink of suicide ... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.
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#28. Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.
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#29. Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
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#30. Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.
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#31. Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn;
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#32. The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
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#34. I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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#35. The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come ...
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#36. The others believed me wise because I won, but they didn't know the many instances in which I have been foolish because I lost, and they didn't know that a few seconds before winning I wasn't sure I wouldn't lose.
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#37. The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.
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#38. This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.
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#39. If you accuse a man of murder, you might be believed, but if you accuse him of eating children for lunch and dinner like Gilles de Rais, no one will take you seriously.
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#40. It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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#41. We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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#42. I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.
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#43. You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.
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#44. And I said to him when you learn to read then you learn everything you didnt know before. But when you write you write only what you know allready so patientia Im better off not knowing how to write because the ass is the ass
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#45. When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.
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#46. 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.
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#47. Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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#48. The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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#49. He fell in love with his golem, found it a source of consolation. Life
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#50. I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
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#51. I understood it this evening: the author has to die in order for the reader to become aware of his truth.
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#52. When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
Umberto Guidoni
#53. A daily newspaper is destined to become like a weekly magazine. We'll be talking about what might happen tomorrow, with feature articles, investigative supplements, unexpected predictions ...
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#54. How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.
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#55. We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
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#57. And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
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#58. For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
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#59. At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay.
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#60. With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.
Umberto Boccioni
#61. The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. He arrives when we do not expect him: not because the calculation suggested by the apostle was mistaken, but because we have not learned the art.
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#63. If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
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#64. They dwell in my light, while I dwell in unbearable darkness, the source of that light.
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#66. We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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#67. We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.
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#68. Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.
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#70. Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial.
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#71. I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
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#72. Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all the time he spoke. He
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#73. I seal that
which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
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#74. The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
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#75. Excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, 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. Jorge did
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#76. Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.
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#77. What does the philosopher say? Odi ergo sum. I hate therefore I am.
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#78. I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
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#79. And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.
Umberto Guidoni
#80. William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand it, and perhaps it was best for us both, because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound.
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#81. I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
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#82. ...interested in everything and nothing else
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#83. He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked.
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#84. I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.
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#85. 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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#86. Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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#87. How beautiful the world is, and how ugly labyrinths are,' I said, relieved.
'How beautiful the world would be if there was a procedure for moving through labyrinths,' my master replied.
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#88. The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
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#89. When one has a text to question, it is irrelevant to ask the author.
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#90. What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.
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#91. I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
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#94. When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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#95. When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
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#96. The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.
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#97. For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines
some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege
I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words ...
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#98. 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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#99. There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only LOVE.
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#100. When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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