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• I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Missing, Melancholy

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Reality, Opposites, Giving

  "America" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, (p. 95), 1988.

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• As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

  Chris Ware

  Mean, Solitude, Realizing

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• That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of them. But one day in college a few buddies and myself all started listening to them again and it blew me away. They still stand out as my favorite band ever.

  Girl Talk

  College, Listening, One Day

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Strong, Passionate

  Albert Camus, Jean Grenier (2003). “Correspondence, 1932-1960”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Animal, Numbers, Choices

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• Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Time, Unhappy, Unhappiness

  Alexandre Dumas (1904). “Chevalier d'Harmental”

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• Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison.

  Curzio Malaparte

  Men, Islands, Rocks

  Curzio Malaparte (2007). “Woman Like Me”, p.7, Troubador Publishing Ltd

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• What seems real one moment is fiction the next
  and gone out of existence the moment after that.
  Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,
  and change our only constancy.

  David Budbill

  Real, Enemy, Gone

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• Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

  Walter Scott

  Dragons, Saint George, Castles

  Walter Scott (2016). “Ivanhoe, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.1”, p.297, VM eBooks

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• Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market.

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Organization, People

  "One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy". Book by Thomas Frank, 2000.

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• You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

  Van Morrison

  Time, Church Bells, Magic

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• Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

  Mal Peet

  Cousin, Believe, Kissing

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• Do one thing every day that scares you... Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own... Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

  Mary Schmich

  Thinking, Past, Fishing

  "The greatest commencement speech ever" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2014.

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• I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Successful, Thinking, Museums

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• A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

  Evan Esar

  Vacation, Like Love, Pleasure

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• Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Blow, Reality

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• I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are.

  Roger Caillois

  Art, Independent, Men

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• Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.

  Fernando Sabino

  Ninety Nine, Path, Life Is

  Fernando Tavares Sabino (1967). “A time to meet”, Harvill Press

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• Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Evoke, Sole

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable restraint: he is and is not its subject. The Americanist is a vision of otherness: literary and academic friends and acquaintances, here and abroad. Eloquently phrased and free of nostalgia, it catches a lost world that yet engendered much of our own.

  Harold Bloom

  Believe, Book, Self

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• In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.

  Serge Schmemann

  Blue, Circles, Leader

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• Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, School, Doctors

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.196

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• For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.

  El-P

  Fashion, Growing Up, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Memories, Paris, Should

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