Edmond Jabès Quotes

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I talked to you about the difficulty of being Jewish, which is the same as the difficulty of writing. For Judaism and writing are but the same waiting, the same hope, the same wearing out.

Edmond Jabès

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle
and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

Edmond Jabès

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency.
What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

Edmond Jabès

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)

Edmond Jabès

In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

Edmond Jabès

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.

Edmond Jabès

Edmond Jabès

Born: April 16, 1912

Died: January 2, 1991 (aged 78)

Bio: Edmond Jabès was a French writer and poet of an Egyptian origin, and one of the best known literary figures to write in French after World War II.

Known for:

The book of margins
From the book to the book (1991)
The little book of unsuspected subversion
The book of shares (1989)

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