"I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind..."

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W. G. Sebald

#Wall Quotes #Iron Quotes #Broken Quotes

“We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.71, Vanderbilt University Press
“The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.”
“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
“When ambition ends, happiness begins.”
“Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.”
“Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to sit down and talk to us about the work we do, how we do it, and what we get paid for it. And I believe that the principles for which we fought in 1934 are still true and still useful. Whether your job is pushing a four-wheeler, or programming a computer, I don't know of any way for working people to win basic economic justice and dignity except by being organized into a solid, democratic union.”
“In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.”
“Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.”

Source : Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.468, Vintage

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