“One lives but once in the world.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , book Clavigo

Clavigo, Act I, sc. i (1774)

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German writer, artist, and politician 1749–1832

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“Once the Regime said that one living cell is a life, real living became irrelevant.”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

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“Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived”

Sylvester Stallone (1946) American actor, screenwriter, and film director

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“It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Much Obliged, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”

Mary Renault book The Persian Boy

Source: The Persian Boy

“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.”

Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist

Mind and Matter (1958), p. 127
Context: The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.