“Life — is it anything more than a machine to which money imparts the motion?”

—  Honoré de Balzac , book Gobseck

La vie n'est-elle pas une machine à laquelle l'argent imprime le mouvement?
p. 26, 1921 édition https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158007362832;view=1up;seq=63
Gobseck (1830)

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