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Book cover for Essays (Inti Classics Annotated): by Michel de Montaigne
Presumption is our natural and original disease. The most wretched and frail of all creatures is man, and withal the proudest. He feels and sees himself lodged here in the dirt and filth of the world, nailed and rivetted to the worst and ...more
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Wisława Szymborska
“But any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.”
Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected

Seneca
“She is not a beautiful woman whose ankle or arm is praised, but she whose general appearance makes you forget to admire her single attributes.”
Seneca, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

David Foster Wallace
“You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness … has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I’m going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.”
David Foster Wallace

Seneca
“The person you are matters more than the place to which you go;”
Seneca, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

Fredrik Backman
“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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Hello and welcome! I’m so glad you found your way here. The Nightingale is a book that really means a lot to me. To be completely honest with you, I ...more
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