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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

“Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.”
― 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