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From Quotes by W G Sebald
- We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
- The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day…
- The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this…
- And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are…
- No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts…
- At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we…
- How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my…
- This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see…
- I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small…
- A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
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