The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.Umberto Eco
Today I realize that many recent exercises in 'deconstructive reading' read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
Umberto Eco
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.
Umberto Eco
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us.
Umberto Eco
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
Umberto Eco
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
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