Assertion: pascal | /r/HasProperty | aware of the vanity
Facets:
value: for before his death
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Périer may have exaggerated the other-worldly attitude of his late brother-in-law, when he wrote that, for more than ten years before his death, Pascal was aware of “the vanity and nothingness of all these types of knowledge, and that he had acquired such disgust for them that he could hardly tolerate intelligent people devoting their time to them and speaking seriously about them” (I, 459).