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«Fear prophets 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.»
«I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.»
«The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else»
«Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.»
«Translation is the art of failure.»
«If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity»
«When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
arouses, bond, diabolical, dominion, grasses, inquisitor, returns, the Dominion, The Inquisitor, torture, transport, transported, transporting, transports, visions
«The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, ''I love you madly,'' because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, ''As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.''»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Barbara, Barbara Cartland, cultivated, innocently, irony, madly, postmodern, recognizing, reply
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