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“It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be”
“We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. Were either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel,...”
“What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.”
“I nodded, trying to imagine the very particular sadness of a vanished childhood yogurt now found only in France. It was a very special sort of sadness, individual, and in its inability to induce sy...”
“The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.”
“I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.”
“The terrible thing is that it's impossible to tear the past out by the roots.”
“The past will disappear if we forget we existed".”
“He couldnt believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writers privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for the present.”
“No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.”
“When you have no future, you live in the past.”
“If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.”
“Because that world's gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrigal singers in the world can't make that other one real again. It's like dinosaurs. We can put the...”
“Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.”
“We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to our former selves, console them, and say: Keep going. I know how the story ends.”
“Once upon a time we all walked on the golden road. It was a fair highway, through the Land of Lost Delight; shadow and sunshine were blessedly mingled, and every turn and dip revealed a fresh charm...”
“I couldnt help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching themit was a kind of sad I didnt mind, and so I just listened, letting all t...”
“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimps...”
“One is always at home in one's past...”
