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From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
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