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There is no word not severed.",6,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":23,"quote_text":24,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":25,"source":26,"quote_tag":27,"commentary":9},2996756,"In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":29,"quote_text":30,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":31,"source":32,"quote_tag":33,"commentary":9},2996754,"What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":35,"quote_text":36,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":37,"source":38,"quote_tag":39,"commentary":9},2996749,"The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":41,"quote_text":42,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":43,"source":44,"quote_tag":45,"commentary":9},2996744,"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.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":47,"quote_text":48,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":49,"source":50,"quote_tag":51,"commentary":52},2996737,"By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\n\nEdmond Jabès, a French-Moroccan writer and poet, likely wrote these words during his exile from Egypt to France in the 1950s and '60s. This period was marked by intense introspection as he struggled with the loss of his homeland, language, and identity. As an existentialist philosopher influenced by Kierkegaard and Levinas, Jabès's writings often grappled with the human condition, mortality, and the search for meaning.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nWhat lies beneath this enigmatic quote is the tension between our pursuit of truth and its potentially devastating consequences. By clinging to our \"insistent truths,\" we risk losing ourselves in the process of seeking certainty, ultimately wandering into the abyss of death – whether literal or metaphorical. This paradox highlights the existential predicament of being torn between the need for meaning and the fragility of human existence.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nTo apply this mindset today, acknowledge that your pursuit of truth and conviction can sometimes become a double-edged sword. Be aware that your unwavering dedication to an idea or principle may lead you down a path from which there is no return – a path that might require letting go of cherished convictions in order to find new, more adaptive truths.",{"id":54,"quote_text":55,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":56,"source":57,"quote_tag":58,"commentary":9},2996733,"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.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":60,"quote_text":61,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":62,"source":63,"quote_tag":64,"commentary":9},2996727,"It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":66,"quote_text":67,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":68,"source":69,"quote_tag":70,"commentary":9},2996722,"The book is an unbearable totality. 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