Sarah Bakewell Quote: If you press me to say why I loved him, I

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

— Sarah Bakewell

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

— Sarah Bakewell

From How to Live

Source

How to Live, on Montaigne's Essays

Life should be an aim unto itself, a purpose unto itself.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.