i do not know who put me in the world, nor what the world is, nor what i am myself. i am in a terrible ignorance about everything. i do not know what my body is, or my senses, or my soul, or even that part of me which thinks what i am saying, which reflects on itself and everything but knows itself no better than anything else. i see the terrifying spaces of the universe enclosing me, and i find myself attached to one corner of this expanse without knowing why i have been placed here rather than there, or why the life allotted me should be assigned to this moment than to another in all the eternity that preceded and will follow me. i see only infinity on every side, enclosing me like an atom or a shadow that vanishes in an instant.
-blaise pascal
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