“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.”
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I am no longer seen or found,
You will say that I am lost;
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Un jour
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