
“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.”
―
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
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