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A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding sadness which arises from their passing. When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way), I feel a pensiveness within. This pensiveness gives my life a quality that might be best described as bittersweet. And those moments take on double meaning and richness - because they are here now - and because they will not always be. ↗


— Bob Benson


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If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults, to the grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers of the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things our most violent form of nostalgia. ↗


— Adam Phillips


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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 ever seem disappointing, banal, inadequate ... She understood me so well! My anxiety that the present 'immediately' turned into the past so that I could love it and dream about it at leisure was just like hers, was identical. It was 'our' vice, this: to go forwards with our heads forever turned back. ↗


— Giorgio Bassani


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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. ↗


— William Faulkner


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There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable. ↗


— Dante Alighieri


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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. ↗


— Novalis


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It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived. ↗


— Alessandro Baricco


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Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August] ↗


— William Faulkner


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For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor. ↗


— Carlos Castaneda


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Câţiva centimetrii, câţiva ani, câteva mii de lei in plus, câteva cărţi citite în plus, mă rog, lucruri de felul ăsta despart oamenii. ↗


— Mircea Cărtărescu


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