"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world."

Loss, May, Self, Spiritual

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"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world."

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"It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

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"If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost, cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow."

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"He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

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"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day."

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"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."

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"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away."

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"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

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