W. G. Sebald Quotes
We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
W. G. Sebald
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
Otto Dix
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
Valentina Zelyaeva
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
Olivia Colman
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Lipgloss is my calling!
Vanessa Hudgens
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
J. B. Pritzker
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
K. D. Lang
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For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.
James Gleick
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If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
Lao Tzu
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In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation and love, are fundamental to the form.
Mohsin Hamid
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We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
W. G. Sebald