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> [“When I talk to you I am happy. Because you listen, and my words find a home.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/when-i-talk-to-you-i-am-happy-because-you-listen-and-my-words-find-a/)

[Edmond Jabès](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

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## More by Edmond Jabès

> [It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/it-is-very-hard-to-live-with-silence-the-real-silence-is-death-and/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/for-the-writer-discovering-the-work-he-will-write-is-both-like-a/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/by-the-light-of-our-insistent-truths-we-wander-into-death/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/what-is-not-grasped-has-all-the-chances-to-become-real/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [My hands are full when you give me your hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/my-hands-are-full-when-you-give-me-your-hand/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/we-do-not-truly-speak-except-at-a-distance-there-is-no-word-not/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/only-what-touches-us-closely-preoccupies-us-we-prepare-in-solitude-to/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/silence-is-no-weakness-of-language-it-is-on-the-contrary-its-strength/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/the-book-is-an-unbearable-totality-i-write-against-a-background-of/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [“In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/in-your-loneliness-you-hear-the-word-from-far-away-and-then-in/)

[Edmond Jabès](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/one-wound-is-enough-to-feed-the-open-wounds-of-the-sky/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/it-is-not-certainty-which-is-creative-but-the-uncertainty-we-are/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/in-the-morning-you-tear-up-the-pages-of-your-fever-but-every-word/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [“At an early age I found myself facing the incomprehensible, the unthinkable, death. Ever since, I have known nothing on this earth can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/at-an-early-age-i-found-myself-facing-the-incomprehensible-the/)

[Edmond Jabès](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

> [As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-jab-s/as-long-as-we-are-not-chased-from-our-words-we-have-nothing-to-fear/)

[Edmond Jabes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmond-jab-s/)

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