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For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

Umberto Eco
Home, Enemy, Doorstep
Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

Umberto Eco
Home, Fate, Parody
Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

Umberto Eco
Home, Journey, Long

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

Umberto Eco
Life, Home, Height
Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

Umberto Eco
Book, Home, School

The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

Umberto Eco
Home, School, Opportunity
"The roots of conflict" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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