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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.

But now 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.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

Translation is the art of failure.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

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.

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.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

In the United States there's 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.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

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.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

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