“The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne”
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”—Michel de Montaigne, February 28,1533–September 13, 1592”
“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)”
“I don't know how I'd made it seventeen years without kissing. It was the finest thing I'd ever known. Like stumbling into heaven.”
“Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.”