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The greatest leaders the world has known were never charismatic or dependent on their public's falling in love with them.
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)
There is nothing to do but to fix and fix and repair and repair all the time, every day, all our lives.
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)
Statistics are often the last refuge of the antihumanist.
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)
From now on there will always be a great self-consciousness between us, as between people who have gone too far.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Midway in life, as at its outset, you do not trust your body not to fail or disappoint you.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Together with her, we feel how stuffy the car is, how the world is boxing her in.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Shmaryahu's blue eyes seem frozen to him, focused on some other world.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
An extreme always appears more pure than a compromise.
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)
The strength to carve signs in stones is for me the Levant, and is what makes it all worthwhile.
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)
Two acquaintances meeting in the street would warm one another's hands with a shy smile.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Reality seems to have broken up into little particles that she can't fit together again.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
We would lie numb, waiting for the night's Operation Cauldron to end, the leaden silence to return, the hollow grief.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Any given discipline contains a majority of priests and a minority of prophets, and the eternal question is who prevails.
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)
Generally, we translate only one level of a language, the top of the pyramid, leaving very different levels concealed below.
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)
That is precisely what agreements are for: so that hatred won't become war.
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)
The first things that get lost in charismatic leadership are facts.
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)
The smell of monstrous pity remained in the empty room.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Hebrew, a synchronic language, holds certain precise ethical and philosophical value concepts that belong only to Hebrew and to Judaism and that are really untranslatable.
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)
We know more about a foreign politician or entertainer than we do about the man across the road.
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)
Perhaps he did not know about that land at all, though it was so near, right beyond the wall, only a password between the twilight and it. Most people do not know.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)