“We had once again succeeded indestroying what we could not create.”
“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”
“And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.”
“They weren't coming back and I could never re-create what we had, but I could move forward.”
“We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them...”
“We are born not once, but again and again.”