A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
In the original Italian
Un classico è un libro che non ha mai finito di dire quel che had a dire.
1981
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Calvino, Italo. Why Read the Classics? Penguin Classics, 2009.
Original citation
Calvino, Italo. "Perché leggere i classici? [Why Read the Classics?]" L'Espresso, 28 June 1981.