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A (very) great author can be recognized by the quality of detestation or veneration that his books inspire.
Voltaire, in the last of his
Philosophical Letters,
did not refrain from insulting Pascal, accusing him of aiming to
“
make us horrified by our being
”.
Paul Valéry had made Pascal his intimate enemy, and all his life pursued him with jokes, the worst or the best of which was that Pascal was too good a writer to be sincere.
Condorcet hated him, who gave an edition of the
Pensées
deliberately incomplete and falsified so that the reader would not adhere to his
"
fanaticism
".
Prisoner at Saint-Symphorien-lès-Tours, Charles Maurras, like Joseph de Maistre hostile to Jansenism, wrote, published posthumously, a
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