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“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“A l'ami on ne donne pas rendez-vous : il vient quand il veut, à l'improviste, tous les jours ou une fois tous les cinq ans, pour une bêtise ou le drame de sa vie.”
― Charlotte Casiraghi, Archipel des passions (H.C. essais)

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Toutes choses sont dites déjà ; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer.”
― André Gide