“I love what speed and coke do to my weight. It's unnatural, I know. I could just exercise….”
Postcards from the Edge (1987)
“Knowing that the life that remained to him could not be of great length, he said, “I try to increase it in weight, I try to arrest the speed of its flight by the speed with which I grasp it. … The shorter my possession of life, the deeper and fuller I must make it.””
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Sarah Bakewell
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book
How to Live
Source: How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010), pp. 37-38.
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