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The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.

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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English.
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On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
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We supporters of the two-state solution in Israel and Palestine are now under a fierce attack from the far right and from the far left in Israel and in Europe. If I were a paranoid, I would say that maybe the far left and the far right are coordinating a conspiracy.
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The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
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