“Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.”

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Context: "Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!"
"The what?" said Richard.
"The catflap! A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention. It is a door within a door, you see, a..."
"Yes," said Richard, "there was also the small matter of gravity."
"Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly dismissive shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery. It was there to be discovered." …
"You see?" he said dropping his cigarette butt, "They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later. But the catflap … ah, there is a very different matter. Invention, pure creative invention. It is a door within a door, you see."

Source: The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

Source: Tektology. The Universal Organizational Science, 1922, p. 248, as cited in: George Gorelik, " Reemergence of Bogdanov's Tektology in Soviet Studies of Organization http://monoskop.org/images/0/00/Gorelik_George_1975_Reemergence_of_Bogdanovs_Tektology_in_Soviet_Studies_of_Organization.pdf." Academy of Management Journal 18.2 (1975): 345-357.

Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni

Source: Interview with Archbishop of Taipei https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/interview-with-archbishop-of-taipei-1299 (December 2008)

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 282, said by Úrsula