Rien n'imprime si vivement quelque chose à notre souvenance… - Michel de Montaigne

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Rien n'imprime si vivement quelque chose à notre souvenance que le désir de l'oublier.

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, lord of the manor of Montaigne, Dordogne) (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay.

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Alternative Names: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne • Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha • Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha

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We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

Rien n'imprime si vivement quelque chose à notre souvenance que le désir de l'oublier. - Michel de Montaigne

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