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Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: No one can explain exactly what happens within

No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: In school I was in the dark room

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: And so they are ever returning to us,

And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: We take almost all the decisive steps in

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: A subject which at first glance seems quite

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: The population decided - out of sheer panic

The population decided - out of sheer panic at first - to carry on as if nothing had happened.
- Air War and Literature: The Zurich Lectures — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: The current of time slowing down in the

The current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything! — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By Amy Waldman: I'm kind of a mash-up of taste -

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: And once he said do not forgetthe north

And once he said do not forget
the north wind brings
light from the house of Aries
to the apple trees — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: Places seem to me to have some kind

Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: By all means be experimental, but let the

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: I always read the translator's draft all the

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness

There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: Dr K. relishes the pleasures (but only, as

Dr K. relishes the pleasures (but only, as he notes himself, the pleasures) of being declassed. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: This, I thought, will be what is left

This, I thought, will be what is left after the earth has ground itself down. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is

What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: To set one's name to a work gives

To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: In the house of shadows where the legend

In the house of shadows where the legend rises the deciphering begins — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By Patti Smith: He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald)

He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald) — Patti Smith

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: Everything our civilization has produced is entombed.

Everything our civilization has produced is entombed. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: Looking back, you might say that Ambros Adelwarth

Looking back, you might say that Ambros Adelwarth the private man had ceased to exist, that nothing was left but his shell of decorum. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: Men and animals regard each other across a

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: I have even begun to speak in foreign

I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: We learn from history as much as a

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: How strange it is, to be standing leaning

How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: A wonderful story collection set between one place

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: It was only by following the course time

It was only by following the course time prescribed that we could hasten through the gigantic spaces separating us from each other. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: At the time I could no more believe

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: He was at once saving himself, in some

He was at once saving himself, in some way, and mercilessly destroying himself. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: We all have appointments with the past.

We all have appointments with the past. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: How far, in any case, must one go

How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning? — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: How I wished during those sleepless hours that

How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: Occasionally I write a small piece or the

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: Only in the books written in earlier times

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: It is thanks to my evening reading alone

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: It just takes one awful second, I often

It just takes one awful second, I often think, and an entire epoch passes — W.G. Sebald

Sebald's Quotes By W.G. Sebald: Like our bodies and like our desires, the

Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. — W.G. Sebald