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• Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

  Simone Signoret

  Used, Used To Be

  "Fictional character: Hector". "Hector and the Search for Happiness", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Past, Errors, Giving

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• Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Past, Reality

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• If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

  Art Buchwald

  Sadness, Yesterday, Live In The Moment

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• The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Soul, Generations

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

  Jasper Fforde

  Used, Used To Be

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• Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Dream, Inspiration

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• Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Quality, Depth, Culture

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• Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

  John Green

  Memories, Lying, Writing

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• In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Years, Finals

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.90, Penguin UK

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• It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

  John Steinbeck

  Time, Men, Bridges

  John Steinbeck (1966). “Travels with Charley”

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• The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

  Robertson Davies

  Future, Past, People

  "A Voice from the Attic". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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• Nostalgia is an illness
  for those who haven't realized
  that today
  is tomorrow's nostalgia.

  Zeena Schreck

  Today, Tomorrow, Illness

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• I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.

  Albert Camus

  Spring, Mean, Unity

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how
  many of my old acquaintance are dead!

  William Shakespeare

  Mad, Mortality, Acquaintance

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.423

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• The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Years, Childhood, Sorrow

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• While the fictional realm as such allows for the obstacles of present-day politics to be altered, neglected, and negotiated at will, sci-fi seems to embody ideals, expectations, and fears of the future that are quite adequate for describing the Palestinian predicament. Somehow managing to fuse nostalgia and hopes for a better and more efficient future, sci-fi seems to lend itself to capturing the decades of Palestinian yearning for a utopia that almost seems dated by now.

  Larissa Sansour

  Expectations, Obstacles, Utopia

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• I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.

  FM-2030

  Century, 21st Century, Persons

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• Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Decision, Feelings, Matter

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Nov 23, 2012

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• Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Past, Generations, World

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.16, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Real, Inspiration, Adventure

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

  Lucy Grealy

  Affair, Nostalgic, Lifelong

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON

  Douglas Coupland

  Weapons

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• The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

  Milan Kundera

  Purpose, Dazzle, Unbearable

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• Nostalgia: How long's that been around?

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Long

  TV Series "Is It Bill Bailey?", 1998.

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