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This is almost surely a quote from Emmanuel Levinas, writen in1967 ...
https://theses.hal.science/tel-01939650/document
... «Rencontrer un homme, c’est être tenu en éveil par une énigme»,
— En découvrant l’existence avec Husserl et Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas,1967 ...
In this thread looking for an English sentence a German translation was given : related discussion: [en-de] Übersetzung von Lévinas’ „Rätsel“-Zi...
Proposals for "tenu en éveil" are so far : alert, attentive, awake ... is there something else, something better ?
Thanks for your ideas !