W. G. Sebald quote

Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.
W. G. Sebald
W. G. Sebald
Born: May 18, 1944
Died: Dec 14, 2001

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Reading, Imagination, Difficulty, Mine, Promiscuous, Shaped, French, Greater, Italian, German, Very, English, European, Largely

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