French Literary Quotes about "classique"

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Classique est l'écrivain qui porte une critique de soi-même, et qui l'associe intimement à ses travaux.

Classic is the writer who criticizes himself, and who associates it intimately with his work.

Paul Valéry Sète 1871-Paris 1945 Variété, Situation de Baudelaire Gallimard

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Un classique est quelque chose que tout le monde voudrait avoir lu et que personne ne veut lire.

A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and no one wants to read.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, dit Mark Twain Florida, Missouri, 1835-Redding, Connecticut, 1910 The Disappearance of Literature

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