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Susan Stewart

“And it is in this gap between resemblance and identity that nostalgic desire arises. The nostalgic is enamored of distance, not of the referent itself. Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss.”

Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
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On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart
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