"To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason."

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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.

— Blaise Pascal