823 Quotes by Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure.

God is pure nothingness, touched by neither Now nor Here. The Name of The Rose

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

Если у меня герои начинают беседовать по пути из трапезной на церковный двор – я слежу за ними по плану и, когда вижу, что они уже пришли, обрываю разговор.

But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to be)? Why have I not been favored like others who are less deserving? No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.

Svestan da ne verujem, osećao sam krivicu što svi oko mene veruju. Pošto sam osećao da su u pravu, odlučio sam da i sam počnem da verujem, i to onako kako se pije aspirin. Ne škodi, a bude nam bolje.

Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.

Between the unattainable intention of the author and the arguable intention of the reader, there is the transparent intention of the text, which refutes untenable interpretations.

Metaphors can be read according to multiple interpretations; yet these interpretations can be more or less legitimated on the grounds of an underlying encyclopedic competence.