Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerg…

Blaise Pascal
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. ✨ Blaise Pascal (1966). Pascal Pensées, Penguin Classics
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