“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.”
— Milan Kundera, book Identity
pg 129
Source: Identity (1998)
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