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“The girl I used to love is no longer a girl, and this saddens me more than our separation. It puts my own mortality vividly on display, in contrast to my eternally youthful memories.”
― Jarod Kintz, Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

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“The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: all-good-things-come-to-an-end, beautiful, beautiful-moments, beauty, holding-on, life, life-changing, life-experience, memories, moments, sad-but-true, special-moments, special-times, time, time-flies, yearning

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“In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

tags: memories, momentos, nostalgia

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“Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold.”
― Amanda Hodgkinson, 22 Britannia Road

tags: memories

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“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

tags: dream, dreamer, fyodor-dostoyevsky, memories, white-nights

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