"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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"Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy."
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"There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia."
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"As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway."
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"Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!"
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"In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go."
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"Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories."
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"Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity."
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"The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions."
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"Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost."
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"The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again."
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