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“What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enou...”
“I'm nostalgic for a better tomorrow.”
“... nostalgia was once thought to be a mental illness or a physical affliction; for me, it was both.”
“The problem with nostalgia is what we tend to do is only remember what you like and you forget the parts you didn't like,”
“These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.”
“an old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.”
“Until then her view of time was the present moving forward and devouring the future; she either feared its swiftness (when she was awaiting something difficult) or rebelled at its slowness (when sh...”
“And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on.”
“I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.”
“The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the walls surrounding a medieval castle: obsolete walls evoke nostalgia. Make your walls obsolete.”
“It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.”
“Mixed with the love we hold for our native country is the fact that it is the place where we were raised, and, should anything have gone a little wrong in this process, we will be reminded of this ...”
“Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?”
“The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love.”
“I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.”
“The whiff of ocean on the southern breeze and the smell of burning asphalt brought back memories of summers past. It had seemed as though those sweet dreams of summer would last forever: the warmth...”
“Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a ...”
“The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.”
“He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. "Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things...”
“Sometimes the best vacation is simply closing your eyes for several minutes and recalling wonderful memories.”
