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Sarah Bakewell

How to Live

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  • Kira Raraцитирует3 года назад
    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 Raraцитирует3 года назад
    She also considered him the first to pay such attention to the simple feeling of being alive
  • Kira Raraцитирует3 года назад
    “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.”
  • Kira Raraцитирует3 года назад
    If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
  • Kira Raraцитирует3 года назад
    To try to understand the world is like grasping a cloud of gas, or a liquid, using hands that are themselves made of gas or water, so that they dissolve as you close them
  • Kira Raraцитирует3 года назад
    To try to understand the world is like grasping a cloud of gas, or a liquid, using hands that are themselves made of gas or water, so that they dissolve as you close them

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  • Kira Raraцитирует3 года назад
    Similarly, to see the world exactly as you did half an hour ago is impossible, just as it is impossible to see it from the point of view of a different person standing next to you. The mind flows on and on, in a ceaseless “stream of consciousness”
  • Kira Raraцитирует3 года назад
    however hard you try, you can never retrieve an experience in full
  • Kira Raraцитирует3 года назад
    “Each man is a good education to himself, provided he has the capacity to spy on himself from close up.”
  • Kira Raraцитирует3 года назад
    Finding his mind so filled with “chimeras and fantastic monsters, one after another, without order or purpose,” he decided to write them down, not directly to overcome them, but to inspect their strangeness at his leisure
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