Quotes by : W.G. Sebald

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

At one point, she said after a while, at one point we thought we might raise silkworms in one of the....

Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras,....

Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the....

However much or little I had written, on a subsequent reading it always seemed so fundamentally flawed....

I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out again....

I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps....

...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....

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world....