Le coeur a ses raisons, Mrs. Bence, que la raison…

Le coeur a ses raisons, Mrs. Bence, que la raison ne connait pas.

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Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (27 July 1935). Borrowing from Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670 (published posthumously): “Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point” (Translation: The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.)

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