Quotes by : W.G. Sebald

The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy....

Once I am at leisure, said Salvatore, I take refuge in prose as one might in a boat. All day long I am....

Memories lie slumbering within us for months and years, quietly proliferating, until they are woken by....

...to this day there is something illusionistic and illusory about the relationship of time and space....

...and Věra said that every time we reached the page which described the snow falling through the branches....

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work,....

The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise....

It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already....

How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to....

In my photographic work I was always especially entranced, said Austerlitz, by the moment when the shadows....