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"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."
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"Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing."
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"I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days."
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"Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and onto the railbed, where the weeds and goldenrod were so high they brushed against her sides. She paused there, looking at us calmly, ears cocked forward. What I remember about that moment was the silence. No bird sang, no plane went droning overhead. If my mother had been with us, she'd have had her camera and would have been taking pictures like mad. Thinking of that made me miss her in a way I hadn't in years."
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"We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild."
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"A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon."
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"I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk..."
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"I was adored once too."
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"Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it's because we are easily bored."
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"Six books, my mother didn't want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books that I put myself inside them for safe keeping."
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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."
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"Who is wise in love, love most, say least."
Love
"O earth, what changes hast thou seen!"
Earth
"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."
Change
"The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men."
Man
"Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die."
Reason
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
Happiness
"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"
Dream
"What rights are those that dare not resist for them?"
Rights
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."
Power
"Love is the only gold."
Love
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