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The emotions which literature arouses may indeed be eternal, but the means employed will have to vary constantly, even to a minute extent, in order not to lose their own virtues. For they begin to wear out as the lecturer recognizes them...Hence the danger of asserting that there are classical works, and that they will always be classical.

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The emotions which literature arouses may indeed be eternal, but the means employed will have to vary constantly, even to a minute extent, in order not to lose their own virtues. For they begin to wear out as the lecturer recognizes them...Hence the danger of asserting that there are classical works, and that they will always be classical.

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Romanian

"Emoțiile pe care literatura le suscită pot fi, într-adevăr, eterne, dar mijloacele folosite vor trebui să varieze în mod constant, fieși într-o măsură infimă, pentru a nu-și pierde propriile virtuți. Căci ele încep să se uzeze pe măsură ce lectorul le recunoaște... De aici, primejdia de a afirma că există opere clasice, și că ele vor fi clasice întotdeauna."

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