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“Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves.
It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities of the present. For some, it brings a measure of comfort, a sense of self and of source, but others, I fear, take these altered memories too far, and because of that, paralyze themselves to the realities about them.
How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?”
― Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt, Book V (Forgotten Realms Novel: Legend of Drizzt): Icewind Dale Trilogy Pt. 2 (Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt) by R. A. Salvatore (8-May-2007) Mass Market Paperback
It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities of the present. For some, it brings a measure of comfort, a sense of self and of source, but others, I fear, take these altered memories too far, and because of that, paralyze themselves to the realities about them.
How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?”
― Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt, Book V (Forgotten Realms Novel: Legend of Drizzt): Icewind Dale Trilogy Pt. 2 (Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt) by R. A. Salvatore (8-May-2007) Mass Market Paperback
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