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Mignon McLaughlin quote: "Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than..."

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

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People were used to those slow human speeds on both land and sea, to those delays, those waitings on the wind or fair weather, to those expectations of shipwreck, sun, and death. The liners the little white girl knew were among the last mailboats in the world. It was while she was young that the first airlines were started, which were gradually to deprive mankind of journeys across the sea. (The Lover) Marguerite Duras