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"A Tale of Love and Darkness" Quotes
By Amos Oz
nonfiction | 528 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
I believe that the world is divided into two opposing camps, and I belong to the camp of the wounded.
I am a wounded person who sings, not a singer with a wound.
We are all wounded souls, but even with our wounds, we sing and dance and pray.
Sometimes you can find a whole world in a word.
The world remade itself in a different shape, a different form, and I still belonged to the old world.
I often read books that gave me the feeling of peering into a mirror.
I have always had an instinct for survival.
What was I doing in this world? What was my purpose?
I was certain that I would never return to that room, that bed, that house, that city, that country.
I was not yet thirteen, and I felt that I was carrying the weight of the world on my young shoulders.