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    An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

by Jack London Found in: Nostalgia Quotes,
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Museums are the cemeteries of the arts

Museums are the cemeteries of the arts

by Alphonse De Lamartine Found in: Museums Quotes,
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It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

by Juan Ramon Jimenez Found in: Nostalgia Quotes,
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A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles read more

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

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We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. read more

We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .

by Florence King Found in: Nostalgia Quotes,
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I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all read more

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

by Stephen Wright Found in: Museums Quotes,
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot read more

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

by A.e. Housman Found in: Nostalgia Quotes,
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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

by John Burroughs Found in: Museums Quotes,
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