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Quotation by Blaise Pascal
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Lettres Provinciales (1657)"Memorial 1654" Selections, ed. R.H. Popkin, Macmillan, New York (1989)Pensèes (c. 1659)Pensées (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931)Pensées (1670)Related Subjects
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What reason have they for saying that we cannot rise from the dead? What is more difficult, to be born, or to rise again—that what has never been should be, or that what has been should be again?
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 222 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).
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