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W.G. Sebald quotes: No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open. No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
W.G. Sebald quotes: 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. 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 quotes: And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
W.G. Sebald quotes: A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom 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 quotes: We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious. 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 quotes: A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern. A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
W.G. Sebald quotes: The population decided - out of sheer panic at first - to carry on as if nothing had happened.- Air War and Literature: The Zurich Lectures 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 quotes: The current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion. The current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.
W.G. Sebald quotes: Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything! Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!
W.G. Sebald quotes: Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them. Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
W.G. Sebald quotes: 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? 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 quotes: By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
W.G. Sebald quotes: I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business. I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
W.G. Sebald quotes: There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain. 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 quotes: Dr K. relishes the pleasures (but only, as he notes himself, the pleasures) of being declassed. Dr K. relishes the pleasures (but only, as he notes himself, the pleasures) of being declassed.
W.G. Sebald quotes: This, I thought, will be what is left after the earth has ground itself down. This, I thought, will be what is left after the earth has ground itself down.
W.G. Sebald quotes: And once he said do not forgetthe north wind bringslight from the house of Ariesto the apple trees And once he said do not forget
the north wind brings
light from the house of Aries
to the apple trees
W.G. Sebald quotes: In the house of shadows where the legend rises the deciphering begins In the house of shadows where the legend rises the deciphering begins
W.G. Sebald quotes: Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes. Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.
W.G. Sebald quotes: Everything our civilization has produced is entombed. Everything our civilization has produced is entombed.
W.G. Sebald quotes: What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction. What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction.
W.G. Sebald quotes: Looking back, you might say that Ambros Adelwarth the private man had ceased to exist, that nothing was left but his shell of decorum. 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 quotes: Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
W.G. Sebald quotes: I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town. I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town.
W.G. Sebald quotes: We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it. We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
W.G. Sebald quotes: How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time. How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time.
W.G. Sebald quotes: A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy. A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.
W.G. Sebald quotes: 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. 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 quotes: It was only by following the course time prescribed that we could hasten through the gigantic spaces separating us from each other. 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 quotes: At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory. At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
W.G. Sebald quotes: He was at once saving himself, in some way, and mercilessly destroying himself. He was at once saving himself, in some way, and mercilessly destroying himself.
W.G. Sebald quotes: We all have appointments with the past. We all have appointments with the past.
W.G. Sebald quotes: How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning? How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?
W.G. Sebald quotes: How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all. How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
W.G. Sebald quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.
W.G. Sebald quotes: It just takes one awful second, I often think, and an entire epoch passes It just takes one awful second, I often think, and an entire epoch passes
W.G. Sebald quotes: Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.

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