"If you press me to say why I…" — Michel de Montaigne

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Si vous me pressez de dire pourquoi je l'aimais je ne peux dire rien de plus que parce qu'il était lui et que j'étais moi

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“Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.”

Michel de Montaigne

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