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The Essays
Michel de Montaigne
The first book in which a man paints himself, without a mask.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
— Friedrich Nietzsche · 1844
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The Essays · Book II, p. 214
“I do not portray being: I portray passing — not the passing from one age to another, but from day to day, from minute to minute…”
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Montaigne, Nietzsche, Hugo, Molière, Baudelaire and dozens of other public-domain authors.
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