Nameless Rose

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Theme: Quotations
1. But now 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.
2. The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
3. A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
4. A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
5. Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
6. ...and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
7. I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one.
8. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
9. Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
10. As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.
11. The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
12. How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
13. There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
14. I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
15. After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.
16. 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...
17. When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.
18. 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.
19. Love is wiser than wisdom.
20. To survive, you must tell stories.

by Umberto Eco