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“For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.”
“Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.”
“There are no days more full than those we go back to.”
“The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.”
“Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.”
“…nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.”
“We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.”
“No matter how fierce was the passion that gripped him, the fact is he was paralyzed, transfixed by the contemplation of his own past. Only something so momentous as to drive from his consciousness ...”
“The idea that she would leave all of this - the rooms of the house once more familiar and warm and comforting - and go back to Brooklyn and not return for a long time again frightened her now. She ...”
“If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.”
“Allie sighed. It was an old yellow sound, like turning pages.”
“...I have to admit that I've ... always felt burdened by nostalgia, by a desire to stop time, to recapture things that have been lost. A sense that everything, absolutely everything, is on a journe...”
“Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare ourselves and our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.”
“My dear, you never will understand time, will you? You're always trying to be the things you were, instead of the person you are tonight. Why do you save those ticket stubs and theater programs? Th...”
“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...”
“It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.”
“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.”
