"Naître, c'est seulement commencer à mourir."
— Théophile Gautier

January 1, 1970

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Sources

"L'Horloge", line 24, in Poésies Complètes (Paris: Charpentier, 1845) p. 324; Lewis Nkosi Mating Birds (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1983) p. 46.