W. G. Sebald Quotes

How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.

W. G. Sebald

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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.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Different
  • Hours
  • Nation