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"Irretrievably," calmly responded the pope; "Brunelli says it, and I feel in my burning entrails that he speaks the truth."

From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel

Irretrievably lost: and lost because the form of the object would no longer tantalize us with its sheer multiplicity, and with the consequent overpowering sense of suspense and awe.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George