Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
~ Umberto Eco
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening – the time they call, for some accountable reason, ‘between dog and wolf’.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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The person who doesn’t read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.
~ Umberto Eco
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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To survive, you must tell stories.
~ Umberto Eco
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People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn’t take their fancy.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.
~ Umberto Eco
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When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
~ Umberto Eco
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