taken from: 'Désir d'un commencement Angoisse d'une seule fin' ('Desire for a Beginning
Anguish of a Single End')

original text:

"La vérité n'existe pas afin de permettre, sans doute, Ã nos vérités d'exister," disait-il.
Et il ajoutait : "Le soleil une fois couché, dans le vide espace céleste, scintillent, pour nos yeux levés, des myriades d'étoiles. Ô solitude de chacune d'elles."Nous errons dans la mort, éclairés par nos
vérités insistantes.'

["Truth does not exist, no doubt, in order to allow our truths to exist," he said. And he added, "Once the sun sets in the celestial void, a myriad of stars shimmer for our upturned eyes. O solitude of each one."We wander in death, enlightened by our insistent truths."]

about the quoted person:

a major figure in French letters, author of fifteen poetic and philosophical texts, something between mystical books and novels by implication, beginning with 'The Book of Questions' (1963). Jabès' works make manifest, among other elements, the condition of exile he lived in. Born and raised in Egypt, he was among those Jews expelled during the Suez crisis in 1956, and came to settle and write in France. In 1987, he received France's Grand Prix national de la poésie.

Jabès created a new kind of literary work, as dazzling as it is difficult to define. A mosaic of fragments, aphorisms, dialogue, songs and commentaries that circle around the central question: how to say what cannot be said.