Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until …

Blaise Pascal
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Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2008). Human Happiness, Penguin Group USA
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