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Goodbye to Berlin

Goodbye to Berlin

Goodbye to Berlin is a 1939 novel by Christopher Isherwood set in Weimar Germany. It is often published together with Mr Norris Changes Trains in a collection called The Berlin Stories.


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“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”

Source: "Berlin Diary" (1930) from Goodbye to Berlin (1939)

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