"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."

Loss, Uncertainty, Change, Future

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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."

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"Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from above."

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"Usually it is through loss that things come to be of value."

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"Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on."

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"American houses...' she said, peering over her right shoulder and down the street. 'They always seem to believe that nobody ever loses anything, has lost anything. I find that very sad. Do you know what I mean?"

Zadie Smith, British Novelist

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"Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico " as if Bianca's death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

Loss, Heaven, Fear, Love, Separation

"I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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Explore more quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

"The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about. Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said; "tout aboutit en un livre, everything ends up in a book. The Greeks speak of generations that will sing; Mallarmé speaks of an object, of a thing among things, a book. But the idea is the same; the idea that we are made for art, we are made for memory, we are made for poetry, or perhaps we are made for oblivion. But something remains, and that something is history or poetry, which are not essentially different."

Philosophy

"And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create a tiger.Oh incompetence! Never do my dreams engender the wild beast I longed for.The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or bird."

Creativity

"From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me."

Motivation

"We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes."

Waiting

"We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods."

Mythology

"Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism."

Reading

"Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction."

Destiny

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."

Science

"Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists."

Criticism

"What you really value is what you miss not what you have."

Reflection