Sunday, 8 November 2015

Why Read the Classics?

Why Read the Classics?

A classic does not necessarily teach us anything we did not know before. In a classic we sometimes discover something we have always known (or thought we knew), but without knowing that this author said it first, or at least is associated with it in a special way. By Italo Calvino, translated by Patrick Creagh.
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