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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
Approximate author period: c. 1918 AD · modern
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- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1918 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: life dates 1881 to 1955. Wikidata Q189564, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189564 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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