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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
A classic--something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself.
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
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A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make th ...
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and ...
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led eith ...
In general a thing is romantic when, as Aristotle would say, it is wonderful rather than probable; in other words, when it violate ...
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed, ...
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