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"All he said was: Nature reigns supreme on mountain, vale, and stream. Gematcht. Geendikt.'"

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 168). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

"Maybe die ganze zach is a drey, a speculatsie, a gigantishe bloff."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 137). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

"The creeping on of death. The smell of distant darkness. Suffering. Silence. Stony tranquility."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 133). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

'"Those birds are singing again. And I am suffering from migraine. Farewell. Remember to drive carefully."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 118). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

"The mental limitations of mere flesh and blood. The silent irony of secretive Nature. An excellent lesson in humility. The impossibility of understanding infinity, and the consequent impossibility of understanding death. And the result—mysticism. Metaphysical yearnings. The hope of miraculous enlightenment. Of redemption. Of illumination."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (pp. 103-104).

"Vera. Sara. Let's go. Good night. Hugs are not my style, but you won't get away without a handshake. Here. Congratulations. Good night, and ... good night, Elisha."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 94). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

"And the Polish forest all around, ceaselessly hissing."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 86). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

What is your name, Pomeranz?

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 68). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

"But he found no rest."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 61). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

"Stefa was advised to keep a close watch on all her friends, because only a fool or a Czech would trust a Pole, and that it would also be a wise precaution to keep an occasional eye on her own Fedoseyev, because he had blue eyes, as far as he could remember, and a Russian with blue eyes was like a Jew with a straight nose: you never knew what he might get up to."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel

"To the dreamy son of a watchmaker the whole situation was terrible and wonderful. An inconceivable state of affairs, which the heart longed to believe."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 45). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

"Good morning, fine morning, my dear Mr. Jew,
Let me propose a small deal to you:
You have a watch, I have a hatchet–
Throw me your watch and see if I catch it."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 20). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

"Up through the chimney he floated and away into the forest: metaphysical wrong cannot be perceived, while perceptible wrong emits a powerful stench of pork fat."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 14). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

"Or perhaps there were no peasants and no sorceress, and no roast geese, but Pomeranz lived there in a state of pure spirit, lacking all physical needs."

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind: A Novel (p. 3). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.