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“Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“MARY: Renaissance, not medieval. Most of the castle was built during the sixteenth century, although I believe its foundations date from the fourteenth.

CATHERINE: And our readers will care why?

MARY: You may not care for accuracy, but I do—and Carmilla will, when she reads this book.

CATHERINE: If I ever get the damn thing written, with all these interruptions!”
― Theodora Goss, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman

“L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays