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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French scientist, philosopher. Pensées, no. 622 ed. Krailsheimer, no. 131 ed. Brunschvicg (1670).

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