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No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.
– Rabih Alameddine

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  3. She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become. – Rabih Alameddine
  4. You can say that Lebanese has hundreds of lexemes for family relations. Family to the Lebanese is as snow to the Inuit. – Rabih Alameddine
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  6. Passion was the antithesis of morality. – Rabih Alameddine
  7. I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one. – Rabih Alameddine
  8. The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now. – Rabih Alameddine
  9. Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain. – Rabih Alameddine
  10. There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don’t. – Rabih Alameddine
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  16. Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven’t realized that todayis tomorrow’s nostalgia. – Zeena Schreck
  17. A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing. – MB Dallocchio
  18. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well. – Erica Sehyun Song
  19. being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. – Charles Bukowski
  20. I felt a tightening in my chest, a sharp spike of intense sadness-almost like nostalgia, except it was for a life I never had. – Katie Alender
  21. [Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain. – LM Montgomery
  22. The God that humanity so keenly seeks, lives within the human biology, yet they wander hitherto searching for it. – Abhijit Naskar
  23. I keenly desire to know God and to keep His ways. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  24. …only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse. – Alison Croggon
  25. Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder… – Eleanor Brown
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  27. Love in your mind can be felt by some, love in your heart can be felt by many, but love in your soul can be felt by all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  28. She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free. – Tan Redding
  29. It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers. – Leslea Tash
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  35. Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I’d never really been found in the first place. – Lish McBride
  36. Why did you leave my hand? I’ve never felt so good, she thought. I felt good too, he thought. – Sara Naveed
  37. I could never really manage to tell reality and my dream world apart, for the two of them co-existed together as they slid over top of each other. – Shvaugn Craig
  38. I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought. – Fernando Pessoa
  39. If you lose God’s paradise in Heaven, then you never existed. – Felix Wantang
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