“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“We die only once, and for such a long time!”
On ne meurt qu'une fois; et c'est pour si longtemps!
Le Dépit Amoureux (1656), Act V, sc. iii
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