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Edmond Jabes has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it…
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Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.
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The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.
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Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
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What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.
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In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its…
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Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
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By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death
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One rose is enough for the dawn
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WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me,…
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THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of…
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How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of…
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