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Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't...

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lo...

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Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost?...

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Jeanette WintersonThe Daylight Gate

There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven n...

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A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

I suddenly remember being about seven, riding beside him in the car, and asking him how grown-ups fo...

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Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and maybe we cannot find our way ...

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Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be ...

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Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

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Jodi PicoultVanishing Acts

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north Lo...

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With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard...

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How will we ever get out of the labyrinth of suffering ?

You can't just make me different and then leave

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

And don't worry about losing. If i is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing goo...

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Edith’s clothes were flung in disarray on the floor beside the bed, the covers of which had been thr...

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This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost specta...

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One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present it...

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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being los...

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It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we l...

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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed wha...

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I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childho...

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In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can g...

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No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right...

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It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something.""I don't want to do that! What ...

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Libba BrayBeauty Queens

Do you ever feel that way?""Lonely?"I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met ...

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I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

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Madeleine L'EngleA Ring of Endless Light

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ...

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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective,...

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the...

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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's h...

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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved ...

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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebod...

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I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubbl...

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And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.

You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.

Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and s...

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I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum...

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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that'...

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And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and kill...

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Orson Scott CardMaps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

Utterly, irrevocably, lost

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transfor...

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I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can’t see today. Pa...

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And if Amsterdam was hell, and if hell was a memory, then he realized that perhaps there was some pu...

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Paul AusterThe Invention of Solitude

This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feeli...

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You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up th...

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

She looks like an empty shell of a woman with her soul hovering above her. We believe in spiritual g...

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No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touc...

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They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men ...

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Ray BradburyThe Martian Chronicles

...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrat...

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Ray BradburyThe Martian Chronicles

One walks along a street and strays unknowingly from one's path; one then looks up and suddenly for ...

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In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be...

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No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have l...

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Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,  One task more declined, one more footpath untro...

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The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of pur...

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The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you do...

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We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder run...

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Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American p...

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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't wor...

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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all t...

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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the th...

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it's a lot easier to be lost than found.

My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And m...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better...

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The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. W...

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Some things were better lost than found.

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Stephen KingThe Dead Zone

Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't feel like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, any...

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Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy...

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