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Blaise Pascal Quotes: We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
         

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.


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