On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not even the power of all our feelings combined can defeat those laws. All we can do is detest them. The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny. So must one be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox.. Must I go on living here then, among the objects we both had touched, in the air she had breathed? In the name of what? In the hope of her return? I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation. Since she had gone, that was all that remained. I did not know what achievements, what mockery, even what tortures still awaited me. I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past. . Unknown
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The quote above is often attributed to Blaise Pascal. The original quote was, "Pascal's Wager" but it is more commonly known as the "Pascal's Parable". This phrase is generally used to encourage people to have faith even in the face of overwhelming odds. The parable is based on the premise that there is no way for man to know whether God exists or not.

However, even if one were to be wrong about this assumption, the odds are that that the person would be rewarded for their faith. Additionally, if they were wrong and God did not exist, then they would still be rewarded, but only in the sense that they would be forgiven for their claims of love and faith.

Source: Solaris

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