The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.
History repeats itself.
You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.
History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.
I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.