'One misses in a primitive way what held one and gave one comfort: even when one fastens on particular details, [...] they are complex eudaimonistic symbols of comfort and support. This suggests that it is more because the need for comfort and support fades that the sensory memory fades, rather than that the memory simply fades out on its own, causing thereby a diminution in the need for comfort and support [...]
Martha Nussbaum, 'Upheavals of Thought'
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