Quote by Umberto Eco
Translation is the art of failure. - Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure. – Umberto Eco

Other quotes by Umberto Eco

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. – Umberto Eco

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Experience
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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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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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Other Quotes from
Art
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. – Michelangelo

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Art

To us, who live in the nineteenth century, any century is a suitable subject for art except our own. The only beautiful things are things that do not concern us. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

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Art

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Art

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

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Art

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When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old. – Lady Bird Johnson

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. – James Thurber

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