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Umberto Eco was an Italian philosopher, semiotician, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and professor.
* He was born in 1932 in Alexandrie, Italy.
* He studied philosophy at the University of Turin, where he received his doctorate in 1954.
* He taught semiotics at the University of Bologna from 1962 to 2008.
* He is best known for his novels, including The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.
* He died in 2016 at the age of 84.
* His work has been translated into over 40 languages and has sold over 100 million copies.
* He was a recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, the Holberg Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize.
* He is considered one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

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Books

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Then why do you want to know? Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

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Knowledge

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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

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I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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Wisdom

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