“Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost.”

“I've often lost myself,in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”

“He leaned against the writing desk and stayed there till nightfall, lost in sorrowful thoughts. After all, she had loved him.”

“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”

“The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.”

“The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.”