Malika Benarab Attou, Member of the European Parliament, for the “Get Caught Reading” campaign

To quote Pessoa, reading truly is a “still journey” and a unique adventure to both the intimate and the universal. With these feelings in mind, I have been reading Essais by Michel de Montaigne. This particular sentence struck and is still haunting me: “To philosophise is to learn how to die?” – a beautiful thought from a man who enjoyed life! says Ms Malika Benarab Attou, Member of the European Parliament