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Call me by your name by André Aciman

This quote, "Is it better to speak or to die?" is from a collection of stories known as the Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549), tale No 10, originally in French.

Here is a translation to English of an excerpt.

“I pray you, sweetheart, counsel me whether it is better for a man to speak or die?”
Florida forthwith replied —
“I shall always counsel my friends to speak and not to die. There are few words that cannot be mended, but life once lost can never be regained.”
“Will you promise me, then,” said Amadour, “that you will not be displeased by what I wish to tell you, nor yet alarmed at it, until you have heard me to the end?”
“Say what you will,” she replied; “if you alarm me, none can reassure me.”

Here is the full story translated to English that I found.