Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 184; this also has been quoted as "What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time."
“It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.”
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Primo Levi
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The Drowned and the Saved
The Drowned and the Saved (1986)
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