When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which comes before and after — <i>as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth bu… - Blaise Pascal

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When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which comes before and after — as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day — the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there, now rather than then.