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Posted on August 17, 2021

Edmond Jabès — The Vale of Soul-Making

I write by the light of what is not revealed in what I express.

— Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions, II. The Book of Yukel, III. Return to the Book] trans.by Rosmarie Waldrop (Wesleyan University Press, 1983)

Posted on August 7, 2020

Edmond Jabès — The Vale of Soul-Making

It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to lose it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You […]

via Edmond Jabès — The Vale of Soul-Making

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