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Translation is the art of failure. - Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure. – Umberto Eco

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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they arent trying to teach us. – Umberto Eco

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Father
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Umberto Eco
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco

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Truth
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The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it. – Umberto Eco

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Humor
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Art
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Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville

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Art

I dont paint things. I only paint the difference between things. – Henri Matisse

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Art

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. – Ingmar Bergman

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Art

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. – G.K. Chesterton

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Art

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The average persons ear weighs what you are, not what you were. – Francis Quarles

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I dont think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society. – Todd Gitlin

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Society

Turns out, I couldnt catch them – or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out. – Malin Akerman

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amazing

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity. – Irving Kristol

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Equality