“The flesh is sorrowful, alas! And I've read all the books.”
Stéphane Mallarmé Brise Marine
La chair est triste, hélas! et j'ai lu tous les livres.
"Brise Marine", line 1 (1887), as translated in Mallarmé : The Poet and his Circle ([1999] 2005) by Rosemary Lloyd, p. 70.
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