Анастасия Шартогашева

“I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“Наука пока еще настолько мало осведомлена о процессе старения, что я не исключаю, что смерть является просто-напросто результатом неправильного воспитания.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum