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nostalgia in a nutshell

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Joke

Mr and Mrs are both in their fifties. Their last child has just got married and it's time for nostalgia.

In the evening, as they lie in bed, Madame becomes romantic; she gently removes her husband's glasses and says to him, her eyes full of love:

- You know, darling, without your glasses, you still look like the handsome young man I married…

And the husband replies:

- But darling, without my glasses, you still look pretty good too!

Humour

Quotes

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

- Simone Signoret
“Nostalgia is the desire not to have to think about the future any more.”

- Milan Kundera
“We don't regret the past; we regret the person we were in the past.

- Frequently attributed to John Green
“Nostalgia is like sunburn: it doesn't hurt during, it hurts in the evening.”

- Pierre Desproges
“Nostalgia? It comes when the present doesn't live up to the promises of the past.”

- Neil Bissondath
“Nostalgia: the bride of good memories lit by candlelight.” >

- Grand Corps Malade
“It's better to keep the nostalgia of a paradise by leaving it than to turn it into hell by staying.

- Jacques Ferron
“Remorse expresses nostalgia, regret for what could have been and was not.

- Antonio Tabucchi
“Memories are our strength. When the night tries to return, we must light the great dates, as we light torches.”

- Victor Hugo

French proverbs

Proverbs from other cultures

Russia

“Where you feel good, there is your homeland”.

Serbia

“Svuda pođi, svojoj kući dođi.”

Go anywhere, but come back home.

Arab world

“The nostalgic sees in the desert the garden of his childhood.

China

Leaves always fall towards their roots”.

(return to origins, family, native land) ```