In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.Swami Vivekananda
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Italian novelist and essayist · 1923 – 1985
Italian novelist and essayist, author of Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler; his essay Why Read the Classics? is a landmark of literary criticism.
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