"The seasons and the years came and went...and……" — W G Sebald
"The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract."
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W G Sebald
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47 Quotes by 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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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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Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one…
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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