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“Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow”
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“Either you have lived well, in which case you can go your way satisfied, like a well-fed guest leaving a party. Or you have not, but then it makes no difference that you are losing your life, since you obviously did not know what to do with it anyway.”
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
“Love isn't soft, like
those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never
close.”
― The Body
those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never
close.”
― The Body
“Speech destroys the functions of love, I think…If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. The word is the harm. Love isn't what these…poets...want you to think it is.”
― The Body
― The Body
“His past selves were as diverse as a group of people at a party. Just as he would not think of passing judgment on a roomful of acquaintances, all of whom had their own reasons and points of view to explain what they had done, so he would not think of judging previous versions of Montaigne.”
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
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