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“A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Those ancients who in poetry presented
the golden age, who sang its happy state,
perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place.
Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here
were every fruit and never-ending spring;
these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso