6 Quotes by Amos Oz about love

  • Author Amos Oz
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    Sometimes Yoel had the feeling that it was not his sexual organ but his whole being that was penetrating and luxuriating inside her womb. That he was entirety wrapped up and quivering inside her. Until with each caress the difference between caresser and caressed vanished, as though they had ceased being a man and a woman making love and had become one flesh.

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  • Author Amos Oz
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    Passadas duas semanas, no quarto dela, lá em cima, na água-furtada, entre uma pancada de chuva e a outra pancada de chuva, ele lhe pediu a mão. Não disse, Seja minha esposa, mas pediu assim: Se você se casar comigo, eu também me caso com você.

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  • Author Amos Oz
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    Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster.

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    Mas como se começa um amor numa manhã chuvosa de sábado como esta, num quartinho pobre na velha Bat Yam em meados dos anos sessenta?

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