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Letter "L" » lost
«There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
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Statesman)
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Keywords:
becomes,
choice,
longer,
look back,
lost,
no longer,
point,
Point of,
point of no return,
question,
return,
simple,
staked,
The Simple Life
«What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.»
«Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.»
Author: Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
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Keywords:
absence,
Absences,
Begin,
book,
exists,
first book,
half,
has-been,
imagine,
incomplete,
incompleteness,
lack,
lost,
parted,
The Other Half,
volumes
«The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.»
«The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.»
«We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
accompanied,
accompanying,
All days,
Any Day Now,
at least,
by the day,
call,
call at,
call out,
call up,
consider,
danced,
Dances With,
Day,
day in and day out,
day in day out,
D Day,
every,
every day,
false,
falser,
falsest,
have-not,
laugh,
Laugh In,
least,
lost,
once,
once before,
On This Day,
should,
The Calling,
The Dancing,
truth,
Was
«The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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About:
Reason
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Keywords:
enough,
enslaves,
her,
listens,
lost,
master,
minds,
reason,
strong,
The Man,
The Man Who
«Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life»
Author: German Proverb
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Keywords:
find,
get,
lost,
My school,
on the way,
school,
schooled,
schooling,
their,
The Way,
those,
through,
way
«We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
feeling,
For the,
gained,
have-not,
Know how,
lost,
made,
making known,
matter,
much as,
Over the Rainbow,
pried,
pry,
prying,
rainbow,
Rainbows,
reverent,
savage,
savaged,
The Rainbow
«The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoning»