W. G. Sebald Quotes

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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• 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.

  

  W. G. Sebald
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