Quotes from book
The Prague Cemetery

Name: The Prague Cemetery
Author: Umberto Eco

Umberto EcoOriginal title Il cimitero di Praga (Italian, 2010)

The Prague Cemetery is the sixth novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It was first published in October 2010; the English translation by Richard Dixon appeared a year later. Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012, it has been described as Eco's best novel since The Name of the Rose.

“Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.”

Umberto Eco book The Prague Cemetery

Source: The Prague Cemetery

“People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”

Umberto Eco book The Prague Cemetery

Source: The Prague Cemetery

“A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.”

Umberto Eco book The Prague Cemetery

Source: The Prague Cemetery

“National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.”

Umberto Eco book The Prague Cemetery

Source: The Prague Cemetery