But if faith teaches us anything, it should be that our nostalgia is for an ideal we can only find after accepting, and passing through, the brokenness of a fallen world.

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In times to come we will look at old Excel spreadsheets, our eyes growing damp with nostalgia.

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The shaky camera wearies the eye but beguiles the mind, as if the filmmakers, aping the style of home movies, were also borrowing their function and fabricating sweet memories before our eyes, indulging in nostalgia for the present.

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Thank heavens then for every so often being able to dabble in a spot of nostalgia, and clap our eyes on Geoff Hurst scoring a hat trick in England's 1966 World Cup triumph.

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This is powerful architecture built to house powerful things: the museum celebrates our affection for antique bicycles, cars and trains, but without coy nostalgia.

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"We know our buildings, but we know this one a little bit better because of the nostalgia, " he said.

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Is there something disconcerting about living in an age in which nostalgia for the past so dominates the present that we can almost feel nostalgic about our culture as it happens?

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