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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

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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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. – Umberto Eco

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Fear
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Umberto Eco
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Other Quotes from
Art
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Art

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. – Roy Lichtenstein

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Art

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows youre scared to death. – Earl Wilson

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Art

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. – Jon Bon Jovi

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Art

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Ive always been around dudes and sports. – Lisa Guerrero

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Sports

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. – John F. Kennedy

Category:
Science

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. – G.K. Chesterton

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Psychology

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change whats crushing you. – Jeanette Winterson

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Change