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We live for books.

We live for books.
– Umberto Eco

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  2. Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear. – Umberto Eco
  3. The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity. – Umberto Eco
  4. Yes, I know, it’s not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. – Umberto Eco
  5. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is. – Umberto Eco
  6. I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. – Umberto Eco
  7. Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. – Umberto Eco
  8. But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn’t believe in it? – Umberto Eco
  9. Translation is the art of failure. – Umberto Eco
  10. How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon! – Umberto Eco
  11. There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. – Umberto Eco
  12. There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. – Umberto Eco
  13. What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves? – Umberto Eco
  14. He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. – Umberto Eco
  15. And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts? – Umberto Eco
  16. The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoonthat is better than a spoon – Umberto Eco
  17. the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved – Umberto Eco
  18. The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body. – Umberto Eco
  19. How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon. – Umberto Eco
  20. Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. – Umberto Eco
  21. … luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene. – Umberto Eco
  22. The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis. – Umberto Eco
  23. It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once. – Umberto Eco
  24. After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty? – Umberto Eco
  25. It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
  26. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
  27. All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. – John Ruskin
  28. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
  29. You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
  30. And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
  31. I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. – Hugo Chvez
  32. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
  33. To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
  34. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
  35. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
  36. Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. – Robin S Sharma
  37. With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams. – Umberto Boccioni
  38. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. – Annie Dillard
  39. I cannot live without books because books are my life. – Acacia
  40. …[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well… [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly… – Socrates

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