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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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"When you don't know where to start,just go to a place you miss so much."
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"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."
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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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"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."
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"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..."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life."
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"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."
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"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."
Life

"So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee."
Love

"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."
Music

"My sun sets to rise again."
Optimism

"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God."
God

"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
Age

"Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!"
Time

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
Success

"But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again."
Purpose

"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice."
Business
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