If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
1 )Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. 2)A classic is a work which constantly generates a pulviscular cloud of critical disco...
There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library ought to be composed half of books we have read and that have really counted for us, and half of books we propose to read and pre...
