I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.
Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être; tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée.
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by tradition; in Motteux's Life of Rabelais this is paraphrased: "I am about to leap into the dark"; also Notice sur Rabelais in Œuvres de F. Rabelais. Paris, 1837, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)