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....

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....

For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether....

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

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

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

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

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!