Fiction
Pensées
Blaise Pascal's Pensées is a book of fragments left behind at his death: notes toward a defense of Christian belief that he never finished ordering. The most famous passages—the wager, the image of man as a thinking reed, the terror of infinite spaces—have been quoted so often that they have lost their sting, but the surrounding text restores it. Pascal is severe, brilliant, and unusually honest about the ways human beings distract themselves from mortality. The book rewards skipping around as much as reading straight through. Ideal reader: the skeptic who wants to argue with a believer worth taking seriously, or the insomniac who needs a seventeenth-century French mathematician to confirm that something is wrong.
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