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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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