Edmond Jabes Quotes
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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I propose to build for eternity.
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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
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Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
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People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.
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At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
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I think that there's an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There's an infinite amount of choices of what could be going on. There's an infinite amount of places for so many things, so you have to figure out how to do your job.
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
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However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
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In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
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There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe.
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Yea, I have looked, and seen November there; The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair; Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?
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Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
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I didn't know how to respond to that. There was something disturbing about being responsible for partially decayed girls going swimming.
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My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
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Nothingness is a sigh of eternity, a casual avowal of the infinite.
