Knowing that the life that remained to him could not be of great length, he said, I try to increase it in weight, I try to arrest the speed of its flight by the speed with which I grasp it. … The shorter my possession of life, the deeper and fuller I must make it.


pp. 37-38 - How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010)

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Knowing that the life that remained to him could not be of great length, he said, I try to increase it in weight, I try to arrest the speed of its...

Knowing that the life that remained to him could not be of great length, he said, I try to increase it in weight, I try to arrest the speed of its...

Knowing that the life that remained to him could not be of great length, he said, I try to increase it in weight, I try to arrest the speed of its...

Knowing that the life that remained to him could not be of great length, he said, I try to increase it in weight, I try to arrest the speed of its...