Classic Quotes

Umberto Eco on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose"


• 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.

• I felt like poisoning a monk.

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

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• We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), Waiting for Godot (1955)

• Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "Worstward Ho", 1983
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• Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

• We only know of one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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•Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

•Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage'

•The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
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• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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• Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993

• Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)

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