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"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

- Umberto Eco

"All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them."

- Umberto Eco

"The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity."

- Umberto Eco

"From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola"

- Umberto Eco

"Too many things together produce noise, and noise is not a tool of knowledge."

- Umberto Eco

"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."

- Umberto Eco

"Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!"

- Umberto Eco

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."

- Umberto Eco

"The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered."

- Umberto Eco

"What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?"

- Umberto Eco

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