C'est la vie
The saying C'est la vie [ sɛlaˈvi ] comes from French and means literally translated in German " This is life ", which means something like " That's just how life is " or " That's how life is " .
The saying C'est la vie is often used to comment on something that happened to someone. The saying is also intended to give consolation by expressing that after a stroke of fate nothing can be changed and that it could have affected anyone.
In the literature
The French artist Marcel Duchamp chose the name Rose Selavy (from 1921) or Rrose Selavy (from 1922) as a pseudonym . = Eros c'est la vie .
The book Sellavie ist kein Gemüse (1990) by the author Thommie Bayer alludes to this.