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Personal Histories - Different Kinds (view source)
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Again, writing your life story is a very personal matter. Don’t feel guilty if you do not want to write a full-fledged autobiography. These personal histories can be difficult to write and take a long time. In fact, this may be the hardest thing you’ll ever do. But keep in mind who you are doing this for. Here is the reason why Montaigne, the really first person to write a personal history, wrote his essays: | Again, writing your life story is a very personal matter. Don’t feel guilty if you do not want to write a full-fledged autobiography. These personal histories can be difficult to write and take a long time. In fact, this may be the hardest thing you’ll ever do. But keep in mind who you are doing this for. Here is the reason why Montaigne, the really first person to write a personal history, wrote his essays: | ||
“ . . .to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions and humours, and by that meanes reserve more whole, and more lively foster the knowledge and acquaintance they have had of me.” Don’t disappoint your decendents. | “ . . .to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions and humours, and by that meanes reserve more whole, and more lively foster the knowledge and acquaintance they have had of me.” Don’t disappoint your decendents. | ||
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