"No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland……" — W G Sebald
"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 which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding."
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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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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
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It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how…
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Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak…
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[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic…
— Unknown Author
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...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and…
— Toby Lester
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During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress…
— Unknown Author
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The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi…
— Christopher Hitchens
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In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you’re a fat woman, you can play…
— Chris Rock
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We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
— Jay Inslee
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For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the…
— Osama bin Laden
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I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a…
— Matt Walsh
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An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows…
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