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“After resting in the cool, shadowy interior for a while, with feelings of both gratitude and distaste, he set off once more, and as he left, just as one might ruffle the hair of a son or younger brother, he ran his fingers over the marble locks of a dwarfish figure which, at the foot of one of the mighty columns, had been bearing the immense weight of a holy-water font for centuries.” (Vertigo Quotes)
W. G. Sebald
Vertigo
“Beyle’s advice is not to purchase engravings of fine views and prospects seen on one’s travels, since before very long they will displace our memories completely, indeed one might say they destroy them.”
W. G. Sebald
Vertigo
“How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.”
W. G. Sebald
Vertigo
“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
W. G. Sebald
Vertigo
“Once I am at leisure, said Salvatore, I take refuge in prose as one might in a boat. All day long I am surrounded by the clamor on the editorial floor, but in the evening I cross over to an island, and every time, the moment I read the first sentences, it is as if I were rowing far out on the water. It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
W. G. Sebald
Vertigo
“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 nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.”
W. G. Sebald
Vertigo
“There is something peculiarly dispiriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.”
W. G. Sebald
Vertigo
“Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!”
W. G. Sebald
Vertigo
