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The Wald Report: The Decline Of Israeli National Security Since 1967

by Emanuel Wald

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Ḳilelat ha-kelim ha-shevurim: Dimdume ha-ʻotsmah ha-tsevaʼit ṿeha-medinit ha-Yiśreʼelit (1967-1982) (Hebrew Edition)

by ʻImanuʼel Ṿald

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Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

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jessa’s Quotes

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― André Aciman

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“..time is always the price we pay for the unlived life.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

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“As the French poet says, Le temps d’apprendre à vivre il est déjà trop tard, by the time we learn to live, it’s already too late.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

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“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

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“I'm not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together--it doesn't mean I know how to speak about the tings that matter most to me."

"But you're doing it now--in a way."

"Yes, in a way--that's how I always say things: in a way.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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