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The Island of the Day Before

The Island of the Day Before
Umberto Eco Original title L'isola del giorno prima (Italian, 1994)

The Island of the Day Before is a 1994 historical fiction novel by Umberto Eco set in the 17th-century during the historical search for the secret of longitude. The central character is Roberto della Griva, an Italian nobleman stranded on a deserted ship in the Pacific Ocean, and his slowly decaying mental state, in a backdrop of Baroque-era science, metaphysics, and cosmology.

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“Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.”

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“It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.”

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“To survive, you must tell stories.”

Umberto Eco book The Island of the Day Before

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“All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.”

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“But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.”

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“the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.”

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