"People's ability to forget what they do not……" — W G Sebald
"People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time."
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W G Sebald
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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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