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  • From: <Robert_Pauley AT oxy.com>
  • To: <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>, <plister AT sulross.edu>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Percy quote
  • Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:41:03 -0800

It was Pascal, and it is something close to "man's unhappiness arises from being unable to sit still in a room alone."  I've also heard it to the effect that "all evil arises from man being unable etc.." 


From: percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of John Desmond
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:55 PM
To: Paul Lister; Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Percy quote

Paul:
 
   Pascal said that, but I am not sure where, or whether that is the exact quotation.  It might be in the Pensees.



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