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W G Sebald has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have…
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We all have appointments with the past.
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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing…
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We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
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The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where?…
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To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the…
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed…
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually…
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Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light…
— Edgar Degas
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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
— Joseph Joubert
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Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the…
— Geoff Nicholson
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On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were…
— Haven Kimmel
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So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the…
— Steven Millhauser
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The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the…
— Diane Setterfield
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The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys.…
— Anais Nin
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How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the…
— W G Sebald
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And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door;…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in the lamplight—paler even than he usually was, which…
— Cassandra Clare
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