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

Umberto Eco · Dreams

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Umberto Eco

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Fear

Umberto Eco

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Success

Umberto Eco

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Death

Umberto Eco

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.

Nature