Top 40 Edmond Jabes Quotes
#1. How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)
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#2. Silence is no weakness of language.
It is, on the contrary, its strength.
It is the weakness of words not to know this.
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#3. Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.
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#4. We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.
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#5. It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it.
Jessica Khoury
#6. A great love carries within it a mourning for love.
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#7. To whom to speak when the other no longer is?
The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.
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#8. I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.
Jane Pauley
#9. In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.
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#10. Now the snow's coming down, and im watching it fall. Watching the people around, baby please come home. Pretty lights on a tree, and im watching you shine. You should be here with me! Baby please come home
Josh Ramsay Of Marianas Trench
#11. God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
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#12. For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle
and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.
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#13. The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.
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#14. My hands are full when you give me your hand.
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#15. Nothingness is a sigh of eternity, a casual avowal of the infinite
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#16. What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.
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#18. Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency.
What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?
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#20. I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians ... if we were given that opportunity.
Jack Layton
#23. How is it that time can be elastic? Sometimes years seem to go by while you're looking the other way, and sometimes-when you most long for it to pass-life-times can stretch from a few hours
Polly Johnson
#24. Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.
Greg Behrendt
#25. No matter what the results, it is my choices that define me. And I will fight for them, even when it seems that failure is inevitable. Perhaps most especially then.
Cat Hellisen
#26. One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.
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#27. As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.
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#28. It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
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#29. If you like everything, that's basically just saying that you don't really like anything.
Morgan Matson
#30. Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.
Erica Jong
#32. By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death
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#33. Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.
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#34. I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He questions the words, which question him. He accompanies the words, which accompany him. The initiative is shared, as if spontaneous.
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#35. Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death's gift to vulgar life so that it can live in beauty.
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#36. I'm not looking forward to a specific person per se; I'm just excited to meet everyone. I respect greatness and I'm just going to soak in anyone I meet.
Arian Foster
#37. We will gather images and images of images up till the last, which is blank. This one we will agree on. (Reb Carasso)
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#38. Sometimes you don't know what you're missing until you find it.
Vi Keeland
#39. Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
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#40. Wound me ... I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
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