Blaise Pascal

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Books by Blaise Pascal

The Way of All Flesh on Les Provinciales: “One of the most gushing weeklies had a fit over it, and declared it to be the finest thing that had been done since the "Provincial Letters" of Pascal. Once a month or so that weekly always found some picture which was the finest that had been done since the old masters, or some satire that was the finest that had appeared since Swift or…”
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas on Pensées: “Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. No. He's a thinking erratum.”
Brave New World on Pensées: “"whisk, whisk, King Lear and the Thoughts of Pascal" — Mustapha Mond's history lecture.”
The Rebel on Pensées: “The Will to Power ends, like Pascal's Pensees, of which it so often reminds us, with a wager.”
The Quiet American on Pensées: “His eyes were on a page of Les Pensées as though he were still absorbed in those sad arguments.”
The Wild Ass's Skin on The Provincial Letters: “What! the author of the _Lettres provinciales_ invented it?”