Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience....... Quote by "W. G. Sebald"

Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.
— W. G. Sebald

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Other Quotes by "W. G. Sebald"

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
— W. G. Sebald

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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
— W. G. Sebald

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I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.
— W. G. Sebald

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Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.
— W. G. Sebald

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It would be presumptuous to say writing a book would be a sufficient gesture, but if people were more preoccupied with the past, maybe the events that overwhelm us would be fewer.
— W. G. Sebald

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