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Umberto Eco OMRI (/ˈɛkoʊ/; Italian: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛːko]; 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is best known internationally for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy.

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I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

Article, Articles, Enjoyed, My Own, Preferred

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

Death, Discouraging, Humiliating, Limit, Limits

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.

Memories, Parent, Photo, Remember, Tell, Two

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.

Construct, Machines, Mind, Minds, Today, World

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.

Becoming One, Belonged, Catholic, Leader, National, Organization

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

Dark, God, Nothing, Shadow, World

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

Novels, Professor, Serious, Thinking, Weekend, Writing

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.

Listening, Mean, Understand, What Matters

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

Endures, Hold, Names, Rose, Yesterday

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.

Forgeries, History, Long, Lying, Steps

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

Amusing, Certain, Follows, Think, Thinking

Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

Irrelevance, Number, Numbers, School, Subjects

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

Newspaper, Newspapers, Obvious, Opinion, Produce

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

List, Lists, Shopping, Write, Writing

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

Easy, People, Read, Want

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

America, Australia, Captain, Incognita, India, Tale

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

Burn, Poet, Poetry, Poets, Publish, Writing

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

Believe, Confirm, Followers, Occult

The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

Common, Common Sense, Inspiration, Liberties, Liberty, Templars

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses

Scholar, Serious, Television, Watch, Watches

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