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

 

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


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I felt like poisoning a monk.

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.

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Translation is the art of failure.

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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

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