Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From Dalí and El Greco, From the gloomy ‘View of Toledo.’ He was born before Cervantes.

It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.

Un secret est d’autant plus lourd à porter qu’il engage votre amour.

Il n’est pire exil que celui du coeur

A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure – an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation – characterizes Montaigne’s restless reflections on matter in motion,...