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Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.
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How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking.
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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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W. G. Sebald
Born:
May 18, 1944
Died:
December 14, 2001
(aged 57)
Bio:
Winfried Georg Sebald known as W.G. Sebald or Max Sebald was a German writer and academic.
Known for:
Austerlitz (2001)
The Rings of Saturn (1995)
The Emigrants (1992)
Vertigo (1990)
On the Natural History of Destruction (1999)
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