Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Meandering to and fro . . .

Today is the birthday of Umberto Eco (Born 5 January 1932) is an Italian philosopher and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Name of the Rose.

"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."
- Umberto Eco

"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
- Umberto Eco

"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."
- Umberto Eco

"Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."
- Umberto Eco

"What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?"
- Umberto Eco

"We live for books."
- Umberto Eco

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