Michel de Montaigne: It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books

It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the thing — Michel de Montaigne

It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.

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