I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, withou…

Michel de Montaigne
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I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.2, Stanford University Press
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