Nick Papandreou’s Reviews > How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer > Status Update

If you press me to tell you why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed, except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I.
P. 94, Montaigne describing his love for his friend La Boetie.As Bakewell puts it, Montaigne describes their friendship as a transcendent mystery, or as a great surge of love that swept them both away.