“The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.”
Amos Oz (1939–2018) Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
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