#nostalgia

When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face. ↗

— Clive Barker

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It's chick flick disguised as a sword-and-sorcery picture. The only genre film with less balls is probably... freakin' Legend. Anyone who actually enjoys Ladyhawke is a bona fide USDA-choice pussy! ↗

— Ernest Cline

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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

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I had been there before; I knew all about it. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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[T]he very color of the air in the place I was born was different, the smell of the earth was special, redolent with memories of my parents. ↗

— Sōseki Natsume

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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

#momentos #nostalgia #nostalgia

Any time gone by was better. ↗

— Jorge Manrique

#nostalgia #remembrance #time #nostalgia

It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#pain #nostalgia

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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