"No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open."

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Source : W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.46, Vintage Canada

W. G. Sebald

#Doors Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Terror Quotes

“That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.”
“On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.”
“The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!”
“It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
“An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.”
“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”

Source : "The New York Comics And Picture-story Symposium: Jennifer George And Charles Kochman", therumpus.net. March 4, 2014.
“Defense is the first act of war.”
“At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.”

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