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“People are the same all over the world, I imagine, people who react like that to their countries conspiracies: turning them into tales that are told, like children’s fables, and also into place in the memory or the imagination, a place where we go as tourists, to revive nostalgia or to try to find something we’ve lost.”

Imagination Nostalgia Cultural Memory

Book:The Shape of the Ruins

Source: The Shape of the Ruins

“Childhood doesn’t exist for children; however, for adults childhood is that former country we lost one day and which we futilely seek to recover by inhabiting it with diffuse or nonexistent memories, which in general are nothing but shadows of other dreams.”

Childhood Memory Nostalgia Adulthood

Book:La forma de las ruinas

Source: La forma de las ruinas

“...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.”

Book:The Sound of Things Falling

Source: The Sound of Things Falling

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