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pensée
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Definition:reflection; thought (in English often refers to written thoughts)---nearly every reference in classic literature refers to Pascal's Pensées, a collection of Blaise Pascal's thoughts on Christianity
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal. Pascal's Pensées
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Suppose that, every morning, when we tore the wrapper off our paper with fevered hands, a transmutation were to take place, and we were to find inside it — oh! I don’t know; shall we say Pascal’s Pensées?”
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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Dorothea knew many passages of Pascal's Pensees and of Jeremy Taylor by heart; and to her the destinies of mankind, seen by the light of Christianity, made the solicitudes of feminine fashion appear an occupation for Bedlam.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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He has becco of wild hindigan. Ho, he hath hornhide! And hvis now is for you. Pensée! The most beautiful of woman of the veilch veilchen veilde.
James Joyce. Finnegans Wake (1939)
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