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The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. This pronouncement seems to stat...more

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He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient towar...more

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It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.

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If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

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an old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.

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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

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Until then her view of time was the present moving forward and devouring the future; she either feared its swiftness (when she was awaiting something ...more