There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learne… - Umberto Eco

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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

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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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Alternative Names: Umberto Ecco Umberto Eccounstino Humberto Eco Dedalus Umberto Eko Oumperto Eko Eco Umberto U. Eco
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three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.

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