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Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

Amos Oz

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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
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Pedagogue
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Jerusalem
Middle East
Amos Klausner
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Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.
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The State of the Jews was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.
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Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.
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In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
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Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.
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Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion.
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Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.
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The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.
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Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated them.
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Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
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Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
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I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.
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It's possible a Palestinian state will be installed over the heads of the Palestinians. It could be part of an agreement between the Israeli government and moderate Arab states, but not one between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.
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Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.
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The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.
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I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.
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I recommend the art of slow reading.
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No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.
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I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
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