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The Book of Questions: Volume II [IV. Yael, V. Elya, VI. Aely, VII. El, Or the Last Book] QUOTES

The Book of Questions: Volume II [IV. Yael, V. Elya, VI. Aely, VII. El, Or the Last Book] QUOTES

1 " Does surviving mean living on life, living on a dead life, living death all life long? "

― Edmond Jabès , The Book of Questions: Volume II [IV. Yael, V. Elya, VI. Aely, VII. El, Or the Last Book]

2 " Why these eyes without reading, but always ready to read? This mad will to be healed by the word when all sentences are only hiccups, shivers, sorry tics of the void? "

― Edmond Jabès , The Book of Questions: Volume II [IV. Yael, V. Elya, VI. Aely, VII. El, Or the Last Book]

3 " In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown in it. "

― Edmond Jabès , The Book of Questions: Volume II [IV. Yael, V. Elya, VI. Aely, VII. El, Or the Last Book]

4 " A great love carries within it a mourning for love. "

― Edmond Jabès , The Book of Questions: Volume II [IV. Yael, V. Elya, VI. Aely, VII. El, Or the Last Book]