"There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness……" — W G Sebald
"There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain."
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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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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.…
— Michelle Bachelet
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
— David Bailey
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
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