“Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
“There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.”
— George Eliot, book Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda (1876)
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