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In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see. ↗

— Joan Didion

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Any time gone by was better. ↗

— Jorge Manrique

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It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be ↗

— Kristen Ashley

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One is always at home in one's past... ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Semua orang ada nostalgia yang mengotor dan mencantikkan kanvas hidup mereka ↗

— Faisal Tehrani

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Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, and the past perfect! ↗

— Owens Lee Pomeroy

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I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

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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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You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist. ↗

— Woody Allen

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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 ↗

— Milan Kundera

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