One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death.

One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death.

One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death.

One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death.