"I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation……" — W G Sebald
"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 one's own wretched heart is still aglow."
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W G Sebald
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47 Quotes by W G Sebald
W G Sebald has 47 quotes on this site.
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and…
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past…
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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…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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More Aglow Quotes
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words…
— Unknown Author
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
— Helen Keller
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Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they…
— Billy Graham
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The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both…
— Lynn G. Robbins
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Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect…
— Hafsat Abiola
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again.…
— Meredith Willson
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Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.
— Unknown Author
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Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching…
— Taylor Swift
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You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let…
— Ruth Graham
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Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow…
— Nicholas Sparks
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She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at…
— Grace Lin
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