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Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Statistician
Theologian
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
Think
Sleep
Thinking
Half
Life
Another
Littles
Little
Firsts
First
Different
Awake

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