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is never a place that one goes to... one returns to it. That's one of its mysteries.

You're shaking so am I. It's because of Jerusalem, isn't it' One doesn't go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That's one of its mysteries. Elie Wiesel

is a thing over whose towers faith hovers.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest... Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem... and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. Benjamin Disraeli

JERUSALEM is just a stone's throw from Tel Aviv.

is Ten measures of beauty came into the world; Jerusalem received nine measures, and the rest of the world one.

Ten measures of beauty came into the world; Jerusalem received nine measures, and the rest of the world one.

is a city where man and stone meet, converge; its stone is scored with contact with men, and here men sign themselves in stone.

In Je rusa lem man and stone meet, converge. The stones or Jerusalem are scored with contact with men, and here men s ign themselves in stone. The stones of Jerusalem are no ordinary stones; each one has a past that may have been dramatic and terrible; if they could speak, they would tell not only ol crystallirntion and erosion, like those or rivers and mountains, but a lso or tears and the warmth or bodies, sometimes or merrymaking, more often or what men ha ve shrieked out in extremis. Ibid.

is no ordinary stone; if they could speak, they would tell not only of crystalization and erosion, like those or rivers and mountains, but also or tears and the warmth or bodies, sometimes or merrymaking, more often or what men have shrieked out in extremis.

is, like Heaven, more a state of mind than a place.

Jerusalem, like Heaven, is more a state of mind than a place.

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