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

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


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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.



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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.



Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.



There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.



I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.



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To survive, you must tell stories.



But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.



Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.



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