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"It's not success that makes a person's life worthy of legend. It's provocative defeat, someone who struggled mightily and lost. And that loss can't just be gratuitous - there has to be something about his or her character that whittles that loss into something provocative."
"I get very nostalgic for times and places and experiences, but I have a wonderful group of core friends and family who I love and adore, so I don't mourn the loss of any particular friendship. I think they're all part of a path, and the ones that really mean something are still important in my life."
"Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French."
"So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it."
"In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss."
"In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life."
"We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss."
"What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are."
"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."
"Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us."
"The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write."
"After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds."
"Sudden total weight loss."
"Too much taking heede is losse. [Too much taking heed is loss.]"
"I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King."
"Little losses amaze, great tame."
"There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most dramatic language loss is in Europe."
"In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age."
"Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life."
"Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible."
