"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.“


-Blaise Pascal

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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

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