If we only have love
Then we'll only be men
And we'll drink from the Grail
To be born once again —
Then with nothing at all
But the little we are
We'll have conquered all time
All space, the sun, and the stars.

— Jacques Brel If We Only Have Love (1957)

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Source: in "If We Only Have Love" (1957), as translated in the closing scene in the 1968 musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975 film version)
Work: If We Only Have Love, 1957
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