Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present. The name for this denial is ‘golden age thinking’, the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one is living in. It’s a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.

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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

~   Henry David Thoreau
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It is never too late to become what we might have been.

~   T.S. Eliot
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