Umberto Eco nejznámější citáty
[(en) The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.]
Zdroj: [Eco, Umberto, Faith in fakes: travels in hyperreality, Vintage, 1995, 122, anglicky]
Umberto Eco: Citáty o knihách
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Umberto Eco: Citáty anglicky
“We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.”
Zdroj: The Name of the Rose
“When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.”
Zdroj: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
Zdroj: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library
Zdroj: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library
“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
Zdroj: The Name of the Rose
“How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.”
Zdroj: Foucault's Pendulum
“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”
Varianta: Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”" -
Zdroj: The Name of the Rose
“How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!”
Zdroj: The Name of the Rose
Zdroj: Postscript to the Name of the Rose
“The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.”
Zdroj: Postscript to the Name of the Rose
“A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.”
Zdroj: The Prague Cemetery