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“ ”Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.
About Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian philosopher, semiotician, essayist, literary critic, and novelist, most famous for his novel The Name of the Rose (1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.
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Additional quotes by Umberto Eco
I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune.
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach
them how to use television.
Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature’s ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.