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Umberto Eco Quotes

"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands""I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth""Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry""The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else""Libraries have always seemed to me like the richest places in the world""To survive, you must tell stories""We live for books""The name of the rose is a mere symptom of our nostalgia for a time when names meant something."