Quotes by Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin

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“He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.”

“Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.”

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“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the p...”
— Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin
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“Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.”
— Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin
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“He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.”
— Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin
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“Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.”
— Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin
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