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Translation is the art of failure. - Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure. – Umberto Eco

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In the United States theres a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. – Umberto Eco

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Success
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Umberto Eco
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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco

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Storytelling
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Umberto Eco
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. – Max Eastman

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Art

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. – Ernst Fischer

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Art

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. – Louise Brooks

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Art

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. – Alexander Pope

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Art

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[A]ny concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. – Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. Its courage that counts. – John Wooden

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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. – Solon

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