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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
— Joseph Addison · Cato
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Addison calls eternity both pleasing and dreadful in a single exclamation. It's a thought that comforts and frightens at the very same time. The contradiction captures how endless time feels too vast to hold, tempting and unnerving together.
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