"It will take us a lot of tenacity to modify wrong geographic notions, fanciful historical data, to prove to the Westerner that what we suffer from is too much instruction, that the Romanian intellectual is blasé and smiles condescendingly at the unintuitive foreign lecturer's effort to be lackluster, that we rest on an uninterrupted cultural tradition, that Cantemir epitomizes the status of the ancient Romanian scholar, that our main issue is to formulate our personality."
by George Călinescu
