“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the… — W.G. Sebald Contradiction Copy Share Image
“...I was just laying aside a Lausanne paper I'd bought in Zurich when my eye was caught by a report that said… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Is the destruction not, rather, irrefutable proof that the catastrophes which develop, so to speak, in our hands and seem to break… — W.G. Sebald History Copy Share Image
“You adulterate the truth as you write. There isn't any pretense that you try to arrive at the literal truth. And the… — W.G. Sebald Authenticity Copy Share Image
“In this little booklet, which had belonged to a maternal great-uncle of ... mine, who spent some time working as an office… — W.G. Sebald Change Copy Share Image
“It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know… — W.G. Sebald Death Copy Share Image
“...I remembered the story Evan the cobbler had told me, about the two headstreams of Dwy Fawr and Dwy Fach which are… — W.G. Sebald Lake Copy Share Image
“Once I am at leisure, said Salvatore, I take refuge in prose as one might in a boat. All day long I… — W.G. Sebald Books Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction.” — W.G. Sebald Addiction Copy Share Image
“Looking at those gashed bodies, and at the witnesses of the execution, doubled up by grief like snapped reeds, I gradually understood… — W.G. Sebald Suffering Copy Share Image
“I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town.” — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“From the outset my main concern was with the shape and the self-contained nature of discrete things, the curve of banisters on… — W.G. Sebald Nature Copy Share Image
“But I have never been able to bring myself to sell anything, except perhaps, at one point, my soul.” — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Like our bodies and our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.… — W.G. Sebald Computers Copy Share Image
“I remember to this day how easily I could grasp what he called his tentative ideas when he talked about the architectural… — W.G. Sebald Investing Copy Share Image
“Beyle's advice is not to purchase engravings of fine views and prospects seen on one's travels, since before very long they will… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Someone, he added, ought to draw up a catalogue of types of buildings listed in order of size, and it would be… — W.G. Sebald Justice Copy Share Image
“All things, my son, transmute into old age, life diminishes, everything declines, the proliferation of kinds is a mere illusion, and no… — W.G. Sebald Life Copy Share Image
“All my green places are lost to me, she once said, adding that only now did she truly understand how wonderful it… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“At one point, she said after a while, at one point we thought we might raise silkworms in one of the empty… — W.G. Sebald Changes Copy Share Image
“…the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the… — W.G. Sebald Death Copy Share Image
“From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which… — W.G. Sebald Human civilization Copy Share Image
“They were all as timeless as that moment of rescue, perpetuated but forever just occurring, these ornaments, utensils, and mementos stranded in… — W.G. Sebald Time Copy Share Image
“Anthropological theory assumes that exposure in a treeless situation where all escape upwards was cut off led to the invention of myths.… — W.G. Sebald Storytelling Copy Share Image
“To him it seemed a miracle that we should last so much as a single day. There is no antidote, he writes,… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
