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O for those days when these tired metaphors were teenagers too, when it was still possible to recite ‘Daffodils’ and feel thrilled as you gazed at the golden laburnum in bloom. Recognising clichés is a...

—Indu Muralidharan

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Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn’tactually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in yourmind?

—Jenny Lawson

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Last night I walked for hours. It was as if I wanted to get lost down some unknown street. To get absolutely and happily lost. But there are moments when we can’t, when we don’t...

—Alejandro Zambra

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Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn’t want things to turn abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it, because it...

—André Aciman

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…nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.

—Enrique de

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Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.

—Giorgio Agamben

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We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

—James Elroy Flecker

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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know...

—Ernest Hemingway

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Because who can describe the look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past?...

—John Irving

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It wasn’t that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of...

—John Dufresne

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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.

—Mary Schmich

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I’m chasing a decade old ghost. Searching beneath the rafters of a cobweb-filled haven lined with old memories which my brain cannot accept are dead. The light of nostalgia is burning bright inside my heart....

—LeAnne Mechelle

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Entre el deseo y la nostalgia, hay un punto que se llama el presente.

—Sylvain Tesson

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For it is up to you and meto take solacein nostalgia’s armsand our abilityto create the everlastingfrom fleeting moments.

—Sanober Khan

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She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts?

—Sage Steadman

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Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time,...

—Ann Druyan

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Anthony imagined a time before all that – a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside.

—Alan Gibbons

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Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and...

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn”t what it used to be?

—Jasper Fforde

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Não se pode repetir os velhos tempos. Como o nome já diz, esses tempos são velhos. Novos tempos não podem ser nunca como os velhos tempos. Quando se tenta, eles parecem tão somente antigos e...

—Daniel Glattauer

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The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.

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I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.

—Margaret Mitchell

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The nostalgia of a moment’s love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.

—Mike Norton

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Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

—Jorge Luis

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It’s all about wanting to go forward but still having to deal with nostalgia.

—Miuccia Prada

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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

—Thomas Pynchon

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…And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s what you are. You’re just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

—Sherman Alexie

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I don’t mind, I’m not supposed to mind, anyway. Mearth already told me that eventually I would want to be dead, that it was inevitable… still, I sometimes wish that I could have done something...

—Unknown Author

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The days of my youth, as I look back on them; seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a...

—Vladimir Nabokov

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As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.

—Brad Herzog

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Aegean Islands 1940-41Where white stares, smokes or breaks,Thread white, white of plaster and of foam,Where sea like a wall falls;Ribbed, lionish coast,The stony islands which blow into my mindMore often than I imagine my grassy...

—Bernard Spencer

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For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

—Eduardo Galeano

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94 was a good year to be twelve. Star Wars still had two more years as Box Office King, cartoons were still hand-drawn, and the Disney “D” still looked like a backwards “G.” Words like...

—Jake Vander

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She didn’t want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if to discard the memory would be a betrayal of her younger self.

—Harriet Evans

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Evangelicals have squandered their cultural capital because they have tried to reclaim a standing in American culture that they never had. The American Founding was a mix of fragmented religious (and not-so-religious) voices.

—Joseph LaConte

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Writing poetry was not my thing, for you my love every bit of my heart had to sing.

—Mookhatchka Khalid

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The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

—Milan Kundera

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Rocket Fever Grips Nation’s Teenagers’ cheers on enthusiastic newsreel, reflecting the nation’s sudden reversal in attitude following the successful launch of Explorer-I into Earth orbit. Rather than being strange and threatening, outer space looks set...

—Ken Hollings

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Me iba yo sintiendo como el barco: todo rodeado de color nostalgia. Un color nostalgia que incluso iba enrojeciendo de lo difícil que me parecía entenderlo todo.

—Lygia Bojunga

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I slept that night in the room I used to have when I was a little boy, with the summer wind blowing in at the windows, bringing the smell of the ripe fields. I lay...

—Willa Cather

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

—T.S. Eliot

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we might have to eat the dog” poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald’s was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and...

—Unknown Author

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Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments?...

—Ashim Shanker

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As it is there isn’t a single thing isn’t an opportunity for some ‘alert’ person, including practically everybody by the ‘greed’, that, they are ‘alive’, therefore. Etc. That, in fact, there are ‘conditions’. Gravelly Hill...

—Charles Olson

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This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when...

—Franny Billingsley

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She could sense it very clearly: for me, no less than for her, the past counted far more than the present, remembering something far more than possessing it. Compared to memory, every possession can only...

—Giorgio Bassani

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Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes...

—Jenny Han

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As pessoas geralmente não deixam a própria casa voluntariamente. Só a pobreza ou o amor fazem com que fujam assim às pressas.

—Malala Yousafzai

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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.

—Lenny Bruce

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Un giorno sentì una voce provenire dall’interno, da molto in fondo. Le sussurrava di esser stanca, ma piano, come per non spaventarla. La voce diceva alla donna che non ne poteva più di quella malinconia,...

—Mauro Corona

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