A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

However vast any person’s basic reading may be, there still remain an enormous number of fundamental works that he has not read.

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.

É clássico aquilo que persiste como rumor mesmo onde predomina a atualidade mais incompatível.

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.

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.