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"C'est la vie," I tell him.
"Cuisine, wine and eau de vie: I just figured they all fit together," he said.
He starts laughing before I've even finished the question, then says, with a wry smile: "C'est la vie". I take that as a yes.
But that boastfulness is quickly overtaken by a darker emotional current, as the song veers into the personal, and we hear the pain in the words: I've run the gamut from A to Z Three cheers and dammit C'est la vie I got through all of last year And I'm here.
C'est la vie, I suppose.
He continued to be so ill that, at the age of twenty-four, he could tolerate no food other than in liquid form, which his sisters or his nurse warmed and fed to him drop by drop (Vie: I, 69).
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I didn't understand "Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie)." I only recall an undertone of political and sexual disappointment that was beyond me.
In her memoirs, C'est Court, la Vie (Life Is Short, 1992), Dubost claimed to have attended courses given by the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and that, when in her teens, the infamous financier Alexandre Stavisky had fallen in love with her.
And from that normally silent "middle" demographic that Republicans and Democrats vie for, I'm hearing this war cry more and more.
Once, communities vied for I-40 off-ramps, aware that being bypassed would bury them.
Invented by the Italian army during World War I, vie ferratebegan as a way to get soldiers to the tops of rock towers in the Dolomites mountains so they could fire down on the Austrians.
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