“Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
Source: Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
“What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.”
Source: Everything I Never Told You
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