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

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

Ll our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters from other tongues and cultures. — Amos Oz

All of my novels are democracies. — Amos Oz

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

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. — Amos Oz

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

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

Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth. — Amos Oz

My whole life, I've never loved anything else — Amos Oz

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

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. — Amos Oz

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

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

I recommend the art of slow reading. — Amos Oz

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

Success flows from perspiration, and inspiration from diligence and effort. — Amos Oz

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. — Amos Oz

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

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

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 — Amos Oz

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

Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish. — Amos Oz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nasty thoughts are more like worms in the cauliflower! — Amos Oz

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. — Amos Oz

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

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

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