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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
— W. G. Sebald
Tags: problems, trust, yourself, you

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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
Tags: memory, school, time, great
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
Tags: write, teach, small, always
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.
— W. G. Sebald
Tags: get, turn, lost, always
Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.
— W. G. Sebald
Tags: mine, difficulty, reading, imagination
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
Tags: more, book, past, people
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