"And do not humans strive in a thousand ways to fill or to break the eternal silence of those infinite spaces that affright them?"
— Paul Valéry

January 1, 1970

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Valéry alludes to a famous pensée of Blaise Pascal: 'The eternal silence of these infinite spaces affrights me.' (Pensées, no. 201).