Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.


Essays (ed. 1979)

Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies,...

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies,...

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies,...

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies,...