“Entre les pauvretés de la richesse et la richesses de la pauvretés, l’artiste a-t-il jamais balancé?” Balzac, The Shagreen Skin (64).
Ellen Marriage translation: “Hasn’t the artist always kept the balance true between the poverty of riches and the riches of poverty?”
Google Translate translation: “Between the poverty of wealth and the wealth of poverty, has the artist ever swayed?”
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