"No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad."
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"Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful."
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"…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way."
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"Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves."
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"If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost."
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"Am I lost or just less found?"
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"In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet."
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"With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with."
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"There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen."
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"A man only has a soul to be won or lost."
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"That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear."
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"Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?"
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"Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost"
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"every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . ."
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"Whatever's lost, it first was won."
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"She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost."
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"Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other."
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"I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod."
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"And you dropt, lost, When something broke-- And let you from a Dream"
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"What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?"
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