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“Up until the 17th century, Germany was far more advanced, but then everything devastated by the 30 Years War began to fall apart... The culture is not innocent.” quote by W. G. Sebald — Download Open image

“Up until the 17th century, Germany was far more advanced, but then everything devastated by the 30 Years War began to fall apart... The culture is not innocent.”

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I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

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“In the warmer months of the year one or other of those nocturnal insects quite often strays indoors from the small garden behind my house. When I get up early in the morning, I find them clinging to the wall, motionless. I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out…

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I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit.

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The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

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I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life,…

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Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.

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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…

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Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

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Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

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