“Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?”

—  Marguerite Yourcenar, book The Abyss

Qui serait assez insensé pour mourir sans avoir fait au moins le tour de sa prison?
The Highroad, p. 11
The Abyss (1968)

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