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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

#metaphor

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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The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes. ↗

— Adele Parks

#the-past #nostalgia

We are homesick most for the places we have never known. ↗

— Carson McCullers

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

— Jasper Fforde

#time-travel #nostalgia

There are no days more full than those we go back to. ↗

— Colum McCann

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The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. ↗

— Amy Bloom

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Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods. ↗

— Emil Cioran

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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

#possibility #remembrance #nostalgia

Three years ago the song reminded me of her from three years before. So when I hear that song now I’m reminded of her from six years ago, and me from three years ago remembering her from three years before. Three times, one song. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#song #nostalgia