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How to live? Michel de Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer | |
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How to live? A. Don't worry about death | |
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Hanging by the tip of his lips | |
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How to live? A. Pay attention | |
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Starting to write | |
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Stream of consciousness | |
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How to live? A. Be born | |
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Micheau | |
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The experiment | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to live? A. Live temperately | |
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Raising and lowering the temperature | |
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How to live? A. Guard your humanity | |
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Terror | |
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Hero | |
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How to live? A. Do something no one has done before | |
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Baroque best seller | |
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How to live? A. See the world | |
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Travels | |
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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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How to live? A. Philosophize only by accident | |
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Fifteen Englishmen and an Irishman | |
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How to live? A. Reflect on everything; regret nothing | |
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Je ne regrette rien | |
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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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How to live? A. Be ordinary and imperfect | |
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Be ordinary | |
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Be imperfect | |
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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 | |