“Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”
Source: The Reader
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Bernhard Schlink 17
German writer 1944Related quotes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 542.

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Variant: Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.
Source: No Man Is an Island

Variant: For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
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Consolation Grook, his first grook, published in Politiken (April 1940) as translated in Grooks (1966)
Grooks

“You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.”
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