"A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever."
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"If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness."
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"The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much."
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"His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it."
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"A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it."
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"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."
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"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."
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"There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost."
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"Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants."
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"I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out."
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"Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that."
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"You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it"
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"If you subscribe to the notion of God as being separate from you, than you will always be lost, because you can't even trust in your own untrustworthiness."
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"I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again."
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"For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours."
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"Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!"
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"Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost."
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"I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12."
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"Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost."
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"It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them."
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