“Memory, he added in a postscript, often strikes me as a kind of a dumbness. It makes one's head heavy and giddy,… — W.G. Sebald Memory Copy Share Image
“For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one… — W.G. Sebald Learning Copy Share Image
“After resting in the cool, shadowy interior for a while, with feelings of both gratitude and distaste, he set off once more,… — W.G. Sebald Sentences Copy Share Image
“I examined every detail under a magnifying glass without once finding the slightest clue. And in doing so I always felt the… — W.G. Sebald Magnifying glass Copy Share Image
“I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out again carefully they… — W.G. Sebald Death Copy Share Image
“Like a tightrope walker who has forgotten how to put one foot in front of the other, all I felt was the… — W.G. Sebald Dreams Copy Share Image
“It was only by following the course time prescribed that we could hasten through the gigantic spaces separating us from each other.” — W.G. Sebald Time Copy Share Image
“I watched the shadow of our plane hastening below us across hedges and fences, rows of poplars and canals … Nowhere, however,… — W.G. Sebald Airplane Copy Share Image
“In my photographic work I was always especially entranced, said Austerlitz, by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak,… — W.G. Sebald Memories Copy Share Image
“The population decided—out of sheer panic at first—to carry on as if nothing had happened. - “Air War and Literature: The Zurich… — W.G. Sebald Books Copy Share Image
“It does not seem to me, Austerlitz added, that we understand the laws governing the return of the past, but I feel… — W.G. Sebald Dreams Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately I am a completely impractical person, caught up in endless trains of thought. All of us are fantasists, ill-equipped for life,… — W.G. Sebald Connections Copy Share Image
“From the first smouldering taper to the elegant lanterns whose light reverberated around eighteenth-century courtyards and from the mild radiance of those… — W.G. Sebald Combustion Copy Share Image
“Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the other hand his… — W.G. Sebald Time Copy Share Image
“I spent my childhood and youth on the outskirts of the Alps, in a region that was largely spared the immediate effects… — W.G. Sebald Aftermath Copy Share Image
“He felt closer to dust, he said, then to light, air or water. There was nothing he found so unbearable as a… — W.G. Sebald Little by little Copy Share Image
