“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
“To leave is to die a little, but to die is to leave a lot.”
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Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.
A pun on the first verse of the poem Rondel de l'adieu by Edmond Haraucourt.
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