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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not…
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According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing…
— Alain de Botton
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The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and…
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Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid…
— Richard Lederer
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I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest…
— Robert Sheckley
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.…
— E. M. Forster
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This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may…
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him,…
— Josh Lanyon
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Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in…
— Eric Hoffer
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