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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 Boétie: love and tyranny
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La Boétie: 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
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