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61 " We begged you, Lord, to divide right from wrongand instead you divided the waters above the firmamentfrom those beneath it. We beggedfor the knowledge of good and evil, and you gave usall kinds of rules and regulationslike the rules of soccer "
― Yehuda Amichai , The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
62 " I'm like a rifle that's a little out of datebut very accurate: when I love,there's a strong recoil, back to childhood, and it hurts. "
63 " I triedto go out into my time and to know, but I couldn't get any fartherthan the body of the woman beside me. "
64 " My father built over me a worry big as a shipyardand I left it once, before I was finished,and he remained there with his big, empty worry. "
65 " I'm made from remnants of flesh and bloodAnd leftovers of philosophies. "
― Yehuda Amichai , Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers