"Before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ..."

Nostalgia, Life, Memory, Past, Love

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"Before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ..."

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"The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Nostalgia, Memory, Past, Thought, Emotion

"When you don't know where to start,just go to a place you miss so much."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Nostalgia, Regret, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational

"I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Nostalgia, Refugee, Home, Hiraeth, Yearning

"We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Nostalgia, Youth, Memory, Desire

"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Nostalgia, Longing, Change, Spring

"When I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells - I've never forgotten that moment..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Nostalgia, Memory, Childhood, Christmas, Bells

"Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Nostalgia, Childhood, Memory, Emotion, Wonder

"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Nostalgia, Happiness, Memory, Time, Reflection

"What did Saturday's used to taste like? Like eggs and fried ham and the bitter smell of hair in heavy rollers. Like long quiet hours and making up after a fight. Like ointment and bruising. Like waiting, especially, for something - anything - to happen."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Nostalgia, Memory, Love, Waiting

"When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Nostalgia, History, Regret, Truth, Wisdom

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"I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17..."

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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

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"I keep coming back to certain books, and you-to try to find myself again."

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"Freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others..."

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"Evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it..."

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"I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys..."

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"If you're an artist, you've submitted to authority..."

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"But you - women like you are dangerous- ominous " take care, Love " men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity..."

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