Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."
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Nostalgia
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Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude."
Carson McCullers
Novelist
"We are homesick most for the places we have never known."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?"
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Remembrance of things past."
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"When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning."
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"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 glimpse a future where the beloved is no more."
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"After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor."
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"Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time."
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"Nostalgia is not what it used to be."
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"These fragments I have shored against my ruins"
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"We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history."
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"It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old."
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"Sometimes nostalgia is a cage."
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"The 'good old times' - all times when old are good."
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"Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?"
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"I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."
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"I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia."
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"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
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"The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret."
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"I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot."
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"They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it."
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"What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed."
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"There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time."
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"If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window."
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