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(verb) To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons. Example: "He lost his hearing in the explosion."

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"Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose."
— Lao Tzu
"My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was."
— Rumi
"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul."
— John Muir
"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
— Thomas Jefferson
"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
— Helen Keller
"Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day."
— George Bernard Shaw
"The more I spoke of it, the faster it slipped away from me."
— N.M Sanchez
"Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."
— Helen Keller
"Love what you have, before time teaches you to love what you lost."
— Jessica Pickard
"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
— Rumi
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."
— Paulo Coelho
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Paulo Coelho
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