A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
sentences that have altered my perception
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Research is an art. A soft craft. A quiet ritual. (…) To research is to follow a scent. (…) What I learned from all this is simple: surface-level searches won’t do. You need to dig. You need to get creative. (…) Saved it. It became a breadcrumb for later. (…) Bibliographies are treasure maps. Follow the names. Follow the hyperlinks. Find the
... See moreFor centuries, artists and intellectuals from Leonardo da Vinci to Virginia Woolf, from John Locke to Octavia Butler, have recorded the ideas they found most interesting in a book they carried around with them, known as a “commonplace book.”II