It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like co…

Umberto Eco
240 citations
It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.
Truth
29

More Author Quotes

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, t … ▶
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
Not bad, not bad at all, Diotallevi said. To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.457, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic w … ▶

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes