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“I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.”

Quote by Umberto Eco

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Italian essayist, scholar, and critic. Umberto Eco is renowned for his unique literary style and profound academic background. His works integrate history, philosophy, literature, and semiotics, with his most famous novel being 'The Name of the Rose'. more

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“There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.”

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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. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.”

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Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“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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“Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.”

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“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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“There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.”

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“People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.”

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“Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.”

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“Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.”

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Book:You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success

Source: You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success