"Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is,……" — Lytton Strachey
"Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past."
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Lytton Strachey
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28 Quotes by Lytton Strachey
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It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
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