"The soul has words as petals."

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Source : Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.61, Wesleyan University Press

Edmond Jabes

#Soul Quotes #Petals Quotes

“God's glory is His goodness.”
“Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.”
“Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole experience and life. And that always there's the chance that this will fail. That things will not work out.”

Source : Chris Kraus (2000). “Aliens & anorexia”, Semiotext
“Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.”
“I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.”

Source : "Kristin Cavallari’s Bikini Throwback". Blender magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 08, 2013.
“To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time--they need to be able to picture themselves in the future.... If they can't, then they're simply reacting to daily events, responding to the needs of the moment--for pleasure, for affiliation, for acceptance.”
“Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.”
“I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.”

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