Extrinsic Mortality

Famous quotes containing the words extrinsic and/or mortality:

    “Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
    —William Dean Howells (1837–1920)