How to live: a life of montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer Quotes - QuotesSweet | quotesweet.com

Book: How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
Quotes of Book: How to Live: A Life of

Sarah Bakewell _ How to Live: A Life of
Over the centuries, this interpretation and reinterpretation creates a long chain connecting a writer to all future readers- who frequently read each other as well as the original. Virginia Woolf had a beautiful vision of generations interlinked in this way: of how "minds are threaded together- how any live mind is of the very same stuff as Plato's & Euripides... It is this common mind that binds the whole world together; & all the world is mind." This capacity for living on through readers' inner worlds over long periods of history is what makes a book like the 'Essays' a true classic. As it is reborn differently in each mind, it also brings those minds together.
book-quote