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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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How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the…
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In my dreams of every night I see you with wearing of light and I say for your love I'll fight Until…
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