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| Q. How to live? | |
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| Michel de Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Don't worry about death | |
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| Hanging by the tip of his lips | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Pay attention | |
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| Starting to write | |
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| Stream of consciousness | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Be born | |
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| Micheau | |
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| The experiment | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Read a lot, forget most of what you read, and be slow-witted | |
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| Reading | |
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| Montaigne the slow and forgetful | |
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| The young Montaigne in troubled times | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Survive love and loss | |
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| La Bo�tie: love and tyranny | |
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| La Bo�tie: death and mourning | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Use little tricks | |
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| Little tricks and the art of living | |
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| Montaigne in slavery | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Question everything | |
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| All I know is that I know nothing, and I'm not even sure about that | |
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| Animals and demons | |
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| A prodigious seduction machine | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Keep a private room behind the shop | |
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| Going to it with only one buttock | |
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| Practical responsibilities | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Be convivial: live with others | |
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| A gay and sociable wisdom | |
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| Openness, mercy, and cruelty | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Wake from the sleep of habit | |
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| It all depends on your point of view | |
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| Noble savages | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Live temperately | |
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| Raising and lowering the temperature | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Guard your humanity | |
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| Terror | |
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| Hero | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Do something no one has done before | |
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| Baroque best seller | |
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| Q. How to live? A. See the world | |
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| Travels | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Do a good job, but not too good a job | |
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| Mayor | |
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| Moral objections | |
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| Missions and assassinations | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Philosophize only by accident | |
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| Fifteen Englishmen and an Irishman | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Reflect on everything; regret nothing | |
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| Je ne regrette rien | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Give up control | |
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| Daughter and disciple | |
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| The editing wars | |
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| Montaigne remixed and embabooned | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Be ordinary and imperfect | |
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| Be ordinary | |
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| Be imperfect | |
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| Q. How to live? A. Let life be its own answer | |
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| Not the end | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Notes | |
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| Sources | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Index | |