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I didn't know how to define it — hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism? — this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the… - Umberto Eco
" "I didn't know how to define it — hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism? — this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned.
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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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Humberto Eco
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Umberto Eko
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Oumperto Eko
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Eco Umberto
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U. Eco
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...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.
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