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Translation is the art of failure. - Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure. – Umberto Eco

Other quotes by Umberto Eco

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. – Umberto Eco

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Learning
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Umberto Eco
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. – Umberto Eco

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History
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Umberto Eco
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Art
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An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. – Edgard Varese

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Art

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! – David Herbert Lawrence

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Art

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Art

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. – Paul Cezanne

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Art

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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I dont enjoy movies in 3D. I find I cant engage with the story as well. – Guy Pearce

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If you’ve lost your enthusiasm, there’s no better place to find it than on a skipping excursion. And, you might just find your lost youth as well! – Jessi Lane Adams

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