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

— William Faulkner

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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

#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

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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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