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To whom to speak when the other no longer is?
The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place. — Edmond Jabes
The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place. — Edmond Jabes
My hands are full when you give me your hand.
— Edmond Jabes
Usually I do a practice in the morning first and then meditate. I'm fortunate that I can do it in a car, in a bus, in a plane.
— Donna Karan
Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.
— Lady Gaga
By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death
— Edmond Jabes
We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.
— Sarah Silverman
One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.
— Edmond Jabes
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
— Edmond Jabes
Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.
— Edmond Jabes
For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle
and a wound, like the miracle of the wound. — Edmond Jabes
and a wound, like the miracle of the wound. — Edmond Jabes
[W]andering creates the desert.
— Edmond Jabes
What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.
— Edmond Jabes
The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.
— Edmond Jabes
In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.
— Edmond Jabes
Wound me ... I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
— Edmond Jabes
Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Instead of sounding like a Beckett-style threat, Dr. Lavender's observation solidified something. Livia would live for love. Today will count.
— Debra Anastasia
Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.
— Sandra Byrd
Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency.
What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever? — Edmond Jabes
What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever? — Edmond Jabes
If I'm his 'twin,' we do not have the same mother.
— Rene Preval
Silence is no weakness of language.
It is, on the contrary, its strength.
It is the weakness of words not to know this. — Edmond Jabes
It is, on the contrary, its strength.
It is the weakness of words not to know this. — Edmond Jabes
We will gather images and images of images up till the last, which is blank. This one we will agree on. (Reb Carasso)
— Edmond Jabes
A great love carries within it a mourning for love.
— Edmond Jabes
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
— Edmond Jabes
One rose is enough for the dawn
— Edmond Jabes
The important point to emphasize is that security metrics are a journey and not a destination.
— Lance Hayden
Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
— Edmond Jabes
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 Jabes
the soul has words as petals
— Edmond Jabes
God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, '"That's nice." It's the kiss of death.
— Joe DiMaggio
I am not as merciful as my brother.
— Tsutomu Satou