Don't go to Heaven by yourself

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‘That is life,’ said the pilot with his thick French accent.

‘C’est la vie!’ We all translated for him, laughing. We didn't do it in chorus but we were not far off.

‘Or we have another saying: ‘life is a mess. La vie est un bordel.’

'Life is a brothel?'

'Ah, yes.'

‘So true. And sometimes you work in the brothel, and sometimes you go in it with the money.’

Philosophy, in different languages. There was more to this dialogue but it trailed off into sexual analogies too graphic to be published.