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And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
Yehuda Amichai
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Yehuda Amichai
Age: 76 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 3
Died: 2000
Died: September 22
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Kreisfreie Stadt Würzburg
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