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“In the olden days, at least, they knew when to stop. " "Now they don't any more. In the olden days they had some shame as well." "Yes, now they ain't got no shame either.”

Book:Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

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“Te sientes así; con ganas de dejar que tus neumáticos se desinflen, de dejar a los ratones construír un nido en tu silenciador, como si fuera no más que un camión en la maleza, cacareando con pollos o pegajoso con miel o sosteniendo a un frágil anciano en tu regazo mientras contempla el camino, esperando a alguien para saludarlo.”

Nostalgia Tiempo Felicidad

Book:Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems

Source: Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems

“Everyone wants to live in tomorrow and vacation in yesterday.”

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Book:Caligatha

Source: Caligatha

“If they Brought you back the old cafes, who will bring you back the old friends?”

Nostalgia

Author:Mahmoud Darwich

“On days like this, when memory is not far from the surface, I am grateful for the time I had With you.”

Poetry Nostalgia The Nostalgia Collection

Book:The Nostalgia Collection

Source: The Nostalgia Collection

“A radio, postcard and letter brings nostalgia to my mind.”

Nostalgia

Author:Jesna Sajan

“I still fantasize about some people… thinking of how blissful it would have been if we would have just remained strangers.”

Relationships Nostalgia Breakup

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Mind buries bad memories deep into the subconscious and keeps good memories on the surface. Your 'good old days' were not as good as your mind makes you believe.”

Healing Psychology Trauma Nostalgia

Author:Shunya

“For dinner they ate the stewed pumpkin with their bread. They made it into pretty shapes on their plates. It was a beautiful color, and smoothed and molded so prettily with their knives. Ma never allowed them to play with their food at table; they must always eat nicely everything that was set before them, leaving nothing on their plates. But she did let them make the rich, brown, stewed pumpkin into pretty shapes before they ate it.”

Nostalgia

Book:Little House in the Big Woods

Source: Little House in the Big Woods

“What do we call this moment? A serendipity mixed into a nostalgia mixed into a deja vu mixed into an epiphany!”

Philosophy Inspirational Quotes Life Quotes And Sayings Nostalgia Moment Deep Thoughts Epiphany Serendipity Deja Vu Writers On Life

Author:Avijeet Das

“Elodie was a nostalgic person, but she hated the charge. The word was terribly maligned. People used it as a stand-in for sentimentality, when it wasn’t that at all. Sentimentality was mawkish and cloying, where nostalgia was acute and aching. It described yearning of the most profound kind: an awareness that time’s passage could not be stopped and there was no going back to reclaim a moment or a person or do things differently.”

Time Nostalgia Sentimentality

Book:The Clockmaker's Daughter

Source: The Clockmaker's Daughter

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