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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 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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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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It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I dont want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. – Ernst Fischer

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I realize that every picture isnt a work of art. – Conrad Hall

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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, theres no such thing as perfect. – Alexander Calder

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I think Im going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. Its much more down-home and real. – Neil Young

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It destroys ones nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. – Benjamin Disraeli

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