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“During the flight they will hold their smartphones up to study the two photos side by side, zooming in to look at the wrinkles and shadows on their faces, and finding there the years passed: two kids leaving, two adults returning”

stop this is sooo cute

“Intensely disoriented, they will find themselves unable to disentangle one from the other; and this, their sudden inability to access a version of their past unfiltered by nostalgia, will be their future understanding of nostalgia”

“got lost twice before finally making it back to the hotel, feeling weighed down by dinner and their metamorphosis”

omg absolutely love the use of the word metamorphosis 🦋

“they moved with an almost unreal slowness. they seemed trapped in a pocket of light in the darkness of the city, as if in a fish tank”

love this metaphor

“If they spilled over some coffee, their first instinct was to press Command-Z”

so real omg

“Their interest hadn't been planted by sly marketers, but appeared as if by osmosis, as they observed the little differences all around them” love the reference to science

“Anna and Tom went because art was the pulse of their life in Berlin. It kept the oxygen flowing, kept them in the loop about parties and the latest up-and-coming neighborhoods”

“They did for money now what they used to do out of passion. This was a fact. From this fact they concluded that they had turned their passion into a job. This was a deduction”

“work is a source of growth and creative stimulation, the baseline to the tune of leisure”