Sarah Bakewell

How to Live

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  • Kira Rarahas quoted3 years ago
    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. Simply describing an object on your table, or the view from your window, opens your eyes to how marvelous such ordinary things are.
  • Kira Rarahas quoted3 years ago
    She also considered him the first to pay such attention to the simple feeling of being alive
  • Kira Rarahas quoted3 years ago
    “I do not portray being,” he wrote, “I portray passing. Not the passing from one age to another … but from day to day, from minute to minute.”

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