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> [The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/the-young-man-knows-that-he-is-irretrievably-lost-this-is-no-town-of/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78a/haruki-murakami-21_another-world_the-young-man-knows-that-he-is-irretriev_23568.jpg)

> [“There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/there-followed-a-time-when-everything-was-dull-the-things-that-had/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cb/tracy-chevalier-7345_time_there-followed-a-time-when-everything-wa_188181.jpg)

> [“...as was true of all human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-frazier/as-was-true-of-all-human-effort-there-was-never-advancement/)

[Charles Frazier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-frazier/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07c/charles-frazier-3165_advancement_as-was-true-of-all-human-effort-there-wa_710388.png)

> [What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/what-did-dead-mean-ray-wondered-it-meant-lost-it-meant-frozen-it/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0a/alice-sebold-999_bones_what-did-dead-mean-ray-wondered-it-meant_2909772.jpg)

> [Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meister-eckhart/everything-is-meant-to-be-lost-that-the-soul-may-stand-in-unhampered/)

[Meister Eckhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meister-eckhart/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce9/meister-eckhart-1044_grieving_everything-is-meant-to-be-lost-that-the_3104190.jpg)

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