Amos Oz Quotes


Happiness as a human condition is something I never believed in. I think there are moments of happiness. I don't think there is a lasting happiness. I think this is unthinkable.


Citations

Oz, Amos. "The Art of Fiction No. 148." Interview by Shira Nayman. The Paris Review, no. 140, Fall 1996.

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Amos Oz
Amos Oz
  • Born: May 4, 1939
  • Died: December 28, 2018
  • Nationality: Israeli
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Academic

Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.