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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.

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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.

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• From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

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

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• I write what I write.

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• My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

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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.

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• 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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• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

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• People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

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• Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

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• What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

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• The most interesting letters I received about ‘The Name of the Rose’ were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn’t understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

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• There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

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• We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

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• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

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• There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

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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.

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• When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

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• The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

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Umberto Eco (49)

Birth:	5th January, 1932
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Philosopher

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Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 novel Il nome della rosa, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.

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