“Suicide, moreover, was at that time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”

—  Honoré de Balzac, book Une fille d'Ève

D'ailleurs, le suicide régnait alors à Paris; ne doit-il pas être le dernier mot des sociétés incrédules?
Source: A Daughter of Eve (1839), Ch. 7: Suicide.

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