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One Quotes by W G Sebald
- 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…
- To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men…
- Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will…
- It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on…
- A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.
- 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…
- There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
- No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
- I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that…
- I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous,…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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