If you fail to grasp life, it will elude you. If you do grasp it, it will elude you anyway. So you must follow it—and “you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow.” The trick is to maintain a kind of naive amazement at each instant of experience—but, as Montaigne learned, one of the best techniques for doing this is to write about everything.
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| — | Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer |
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