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He was meanwhile really not a bore to Peter, who failed of the luxury of being able to regard him as one. He had seen too many strange countries and curious things, observed and explored too much, to be void of illustration. Peter had a sense that if he himself was in the grandes espaces Gabriel had probably, as a finer critic, a still wider range. If among Miriam's associates Mr.
Everyone knows Pascal's overwhelming sentence: 'Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. It is overwhelming, obviously and immediately; it, so to speak, knocks one down.
A profound inquietude did indeed devour him. He turned desperately from the pride of his intellect to the consolations of his religion. But even there ? Beneath him, as he sat or as he walked, a great gulf seemed to open darkly, into an impenetrable abyss. He looked upward into heaven, and the familiar horror faced him still: 'Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie!
This it is impossible to reproduce, and the celebrity of Selwyn as a wit must be allowed to rest on the opinion of his contemporaries. "Je suis bien eloignee," wrote Madame du Deffand, in 1767, who, of those who knew him, has left us the most finished portrait, "de croire M. Selwyn stupide, mais il est souvent dans les espaces imaginaires.
"The silence of those infinite spaces," says Pascal, contemplating a starlight night, "the silence of those infinite spaces terrifies me" Le silence eternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. He was already almost wearied out when he came to Florence.
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