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The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words.

only a woman has the power to choose whether or not to bestow.

Ll our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters from other tongues and cultures.

All of my novels are democracies.

Loneliness, mother said, is like a hammer blow that shatters glass but hardens steel.

I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.

Maybe they feared that a knowledge of languages would expose me too to the blandishments of Europe, that wonderful, murderous continent.

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.

My whole life, I've never loved anything else

Tell me, is it true there's no word for Schadenfreude in English?

To be honest, I was sometimes even jealous of those starving children in India, because nobody ever told them to finish up everything on their plate.

only until the children are born. Your life is your own only for a short time:

He always imagined that silence was somehow directed against him. Or that it was his fault.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

Success flows from perspiration, and inspiration from diligence and effort.

my life too would become a new song, a life as pure and straightforward and simple as a glass of water on a hot day.

If you have no more tears left to weep, then don't weep. Laugh.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

In a short story by Chekhov or a novel by Balzac he found mysteries which, so far as he was aware, did not exist in any spy thriller. 35

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.

Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.

Everything, every speck of dust, every drop of water continue to exist eternally, albeit in different forms, except for my soul?

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

a nutshell, the choice is between going through this life awake or in a kind of stupor.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

The Gentiles used to say about us: the diploma - that's the Jews' religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma.

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.

There is no freedom about this: the world gives, and you just take what you're given, with no opportunity to choose.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

But there's also an upside-down sort of happiness, a black happiness, that comes from doing evil to others.

If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.

Nasty thoughts are more like worms in the cauliflower!

Once you have lifted your foot, do not be in a hurry to put it down again: who can tell what menacing nest of vipers you might step on.

When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

After two thousand years we've established a state so as to have someone to steal from.