“A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.”
Italo Calvino
Why Read the Classics?
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“Books are not seldom talismans and spells.”
William Cowper
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“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
Mark Twain
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Arthur Conan Doyle
“Those sages of the ancient world, unbound by dogma of any kind, thought as we do in terms of physics, or rather, physiology, as applied to the whole universe: they envisaged the end of man and the dying out of this sphere.”
Marguerite Yourcenar
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