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“Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.”

Would Be Nature Memories Pleasure Wise Plans Garden Plant Smell Nostalgia Scent Being Wise Nostalgic

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“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.”

Ifs Should Memories Nostalgia Paris Collectives

Author:Rosecrans Baldwin

“I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.”

Knows Giving Book Dies Memories Giving Up Nostalgia Keep Going

Book:A History of Reading

Source: A History of Reading

“Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.”

Mind Body Memories Nostalgia Instance Peculiar Mind And Body Malady

Author:Honore de Balzac

“When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.”

Feels Writing Looks Past Faces Moving Dies Father Memories Boys Imagine Son Becoming Standing Sight Moved Nostalgia Boyhood

Book:The Invention of Solitude

Source: The Invention of Solitude

“A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied.”

Memories Rich Tree Ambition Garden Died Dear Nostalgia Satisfied Spots Founders Alliances Brides

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900

“We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.”

Way Life Littles Moments Memories Our Lives Terrible Mere Terror Screens Nostalgia Suspense Continuity Melodrama

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.”

Hard Past Memories Disappear Nostalgia Shrinks Visiting

Author:Shirley Temple

“Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.”

Way Memories Week Special Everyday Nostalgia Make Sense Everyday Life

Author:Agnes Varda

“It's funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind, unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale. It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn't do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes. Some nights the painful past unexpectedly pushes up through the floorboards like an ugly nightmarish weed, and by doing so, cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.”