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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 213
AUTHOR: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–78)
QUOTATION: Cities are the abyss of the human species.
(Les villes sont le gouffre de l’espèce humaine.)
ATTRIBUTION: JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Émile, book 1, p. 59 (1979). Originally published in 1762. The word gouffre is sometimes translated as sink instead of abyss.
SUBJECTS: Cities
 


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