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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
— Umberto Eco
Tags: civil, united-states, unite, war

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Translation is the art of failure.
— Umberto Eco
Tags: failure, art
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
— Umberto Eco
Tags: black, evening, black-and-white, work
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
— Umberto Eco
Tags: you, man, me, good
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
— Umberto Eco
Tags: approach, which, general, communication
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
— Umberto Eco
Tags: own, who, discipline, today
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