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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

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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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Pen Names: Dedalus

Alternative Names: Umberto Ecco • Umberto Eccounstino • Humberto Eco • Umberto Eko • Oumperto Eko • Eco Umberto • U. Eco

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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry

(William of Baskerville)

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Jorge Luis Borges Ursula K. Le Guin Friedrich Nietzsche Samuel R. Delany Salman Rushdie

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I felt like poisoning a monk.

The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

"Poor boy," the libertine then said, "he builds machines to count the infinite, and we have terrified him with the eternal silence of too many infinities. Voila, the end of a fine vocation."

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