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Quote by Blaise Pascal
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, the

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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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. – Blaise Pascal

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. – Blaise Pascal

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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. – Blaise Pascal

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Death is a shadow that always follows the body. – English Proverb

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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. – Tryon Edwards

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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. – W. H. Auden

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When I did Bumble-ardy, I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did Bumble-ardy. I did Bumble-ardy to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. – Maurice Sendak

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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of CSI and Greys Anatomy episodes with pints of ice cream. – Taylor Swift

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