• Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  American academic and author 1926-2003
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1. resentment
2. dangerous
3. powerless
4. because
5. against
6. easily

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Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us. by : Carolyn Heilbrun

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