Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Con… - W. G. Sebald
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Con…
- W. G. Sebald
We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it. - W. G. Sebald
We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
We all have appointments with the past. - W. G. Sebald
We all have appointments with the past.
One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir.… - W. G. Sebald
One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir.…
How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning? - W. G. Sebald
How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. - W. G. Sebald
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for noth… - W. G. Sebald
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for noth…
In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exp… - W. G. Sebald
In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exp…
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane … - W. G. Sebald
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane …
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