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"The Essays" of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately...
« Si on me presse de dire pourquoi je l’aimais, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer qu’en répondant : “Parce que c’était lui ; parce que c’était moi.” »Extrait des Essais, texte fondamental de...
Montaigne might well be one of the most sympathetic writers ever known. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre; his style merges casual anecdotes and autobiography with deep intellectual...
Les Essais sont l'œuvre majeure de Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), à laquelle il consacre un labeur d'écriture et de réécriture à partir de 1572 continué pratiquement jusqu'à sa mort. Il traite de tous...
Ces deux chapitres, parmi les plus célèbres des Essais, sont une véritable leçon de tolérance. Montaigne nous apprend que les sauvages ne sont pas forcément ceux que l’on croit. Les chrétiens s’entretuant...
Se visiter soi-même plutôt que des contrées lointaines, c'est explorer à la fois le plus proche et le plus mystérieux. Michel de Montaigne décrit son expérience en même temps qu'il se livre à des réflexions...
« Chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n’est pas de son usage. »Dans le Livre I des Essais, Montaigne aborde les coutumes des habitants des Amériques, jugeant leur pratique du cannibalisme moins cruelle que...
Ces extraits choisis des Essais permettront notamment d'approfondir les thèmes de l'autoportrait, de l'éducation, de l'amitié, de la mort et du stoïcisme. Notions littéraires : autoportrait et autobiographie,...
J'ouvre les choses plus que je ne les découvre : Montaigne s'interroge et renonce souvent à conclure, parce que le réel n'est jamais simple. Cette défiance envers un savoir trop sûr de lui, noter époque...
À bien des égards, Les Essais constituent l'oeuvre fondatrice des lettres françaises et de la pensée occidentale moderne, dont Montaigne est l'un des pères. Or rares sont ceux qui, en France, peuvent...
An entire world falls to war.A young man watches helplessly as his sister is eaten by a giant demon right before his eyes. He narrowly escapes death himself; buoyed by the current of a corpse-filled canal,...
Melody Singleton is a bright 13-year-old girl who loves math, classical music, her mom, her best friend Yaeko, and her dog. To her classmates that makes her a nerd, and they cruelly treat her as such....
Obituaries and funerals are always the same. It does not matter if the deceased was a great man or a monster; those eulogizing him will proclaim the same thing: that he was an awesome guy, a loving father,...
The search for one's calling takes great patience and courage. Choosing that calling, once it becomes apparent, takes even more.Pursuing a calling is a deadly enterprise, for it will inevitably claim...
Otoro Queril is feared by his fellow Tracluse. As an executioner for Necrolius Anaxagorius' Imperium, it's Otoro's job to kill those poor souls brought to his chopping block, and to do it as efficiently...
PARTS FIVE AND SIX Melody Singleton is a bright 13-year-old girl who loves math, classical music, her mom, her best friend Yaeko, and her dog. To her classmates that makes her a nerd, and they cruelly...
Love and hate, loss and betrayal, inspiration and perspiration. God and nature. Poetry that isn't saturated or diluted or made safe for general consumption. Read and be enlightened, enraged, enraptured,...
She got up and found a book of matches, came back and sat. She examined the wick, which was partially buried in the wax, and then pried it free with her thumb. She thought of the handsome dark man: the...
What did you spend your life doing?Did you answer the unique and primal acheeach and every one of us has?Or did you (almost certainly) ignore it?Life is: school, marriage, kids, house, job, retirement,...
Life is money and promotions.It's stabbing others in the back and gossiping around the water cooler.It's toilet paper commercials featuring cutesy bears,and sports cars mid-life-crisis suburbans can't...
What came first, the shadow or the leafit falls upon,the sunlight or the pain?Painted yellow, what calls, and what echoes, and what criesthrough the valley;And what strains the surface of thingswhen joy...
Why take the highway?Sure, it's the safe route, the easy route.But the emptiness calls me.I want to walk and walk and walkuntil I can no longer see the highway.Until I can no longer see any path of any...
These days are like prison.Inescapable.The illusion of freedom.An incest of hours, moments, experiences.Simplicity dressed as complexity,whoring itself on the corner ofMundanity and Terror. Here at the...
As a Rogue, the Saeire Insu warship Failure is free to chart course wherever its crew pleases. Their mission, as it stands for all Rogues, is to do as much damage as possible to the Imperial Navy in order...
Anurag de Bouchard is on a mission. He's waited half his lifetime for this moment. At last he can light the beacon that will spread the news across the whole of Aquanus:The Apprentice has come.All across...
When he was a mortal, Ray Wilms had no time or patience for children. Despite being an educator, he couldn't stand them.As an angel of death, his very first assignment back to Earth is to save a sixteen-year-old...
Shortly after my mother died of a terrible illness, I began having ... visions. They weren't wispy, flighty dreams or random, short-lived nightmares. No, these phantasms were much fuller, much more tactile...
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