‘He wrote neat little arguments about grand subjects, pro and con, well scattered with classical references, while his head pounded with the dreadful emptiness, the deadly vacuity that was no longer being kept at bay by a busy life.’

– Jenny Diski, Apology for the Woman Writing (on Michel de Montaigne)

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