“He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.”
Jack London book The Sea-Wolf
Wolf Larsen, Chapter Six
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“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.”
— Michel De Montaigne, book Essays
Book I, Ch. 38. Of Solitude
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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