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Paul Bowles Quotes

Africa was a big place and would offer its own suggestions Picture Quote #1

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations Picture Quote #1

We’ve never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We’re hanging on to the outside for all we’re worth, convinced we’re going to fall off at the next bump Picture Quote #1

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside Picture Quote #1

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost Picture Quote #1

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen Picture Quote #1

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The soul is the weariest part of the body Picture Quote #1

Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west Picture Quote #1

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze Picture Quote #1

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better Picture Quote #1

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade Picture Quote #1

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time Picture Quote #1

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Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded Picture Quote #1

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one’s own nature Picture Quote #1

If you don’t know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out Picture Quote #1

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless Picture Quote #1

Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know. I assume it is natural for a traveler to seek diversity, and that it is the human element that makes him most aware of difference. If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another Picture Quote #1

It’s very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don’t get anywhere with it. There’s no friction in it. There’s no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody’s got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it Picture Quote #1

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If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another Picture Quote #1

The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it’s having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels Picture Quote #1

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic Picture Quote #1

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we’re just so small Picture Quote #1

I’ve always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it Picture Quote #1

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home Picture Quote #1

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We’ve never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We’re hanging on to the outside for all we’re worth, convinced we’re going to fall off at the next bump Picture Quote #1

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary Picture Quote #1

Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless Picture Quote #1

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky’s clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose Picture Quote #1

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above Picture Quote #1

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Africa was a big place and would offer its own suggestions (Paul Bowles Quotes) Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations (Paul Bowles Quotes) We’ve never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We’re hanging on to the outside for all we’re worth, convinced we’re going to fall off at the next bump. (Paul Bowles Quotes) There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside (Paul Bowles Quotes) Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost (Paul Bowles Quotes) Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen (Paul Bowles Quotes) The soul is the weariest part of the body (Paul Bowles Quotes) Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west (Paul Bowles Quotes) She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze (Paul Bowles Quotes) Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better (Paul Bowles Quotes) Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade (Paul Bowles Quotes) One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time (Paul Bowles Quotes) Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded (Paul Bowles Quotes) The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one’s own nature (Paul Bowles Quotes) If you don’t know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out (Paul Bowles Quotes) How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless (Paul Bowles Quotes) Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know. I assume it is natural for a traveler to seek diversity, and that it is the human element that makes him most aware of difference. If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another (Paul Bowles Quotes) It’s very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don’t get anywhere with it. There’s no friction in it. There’s no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody’s got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it (Paul Bowles Quotes) If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another (Paul Bowles Quotes) The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it’s having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels (Paul Bowles Quotes) Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic (Paul Bowles Quotes) How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we’re just so small (Paul Bowles Quotes) I’ve always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it (Paul Bowles Quotes) Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home (Paul Bowles Quotes) We’ve never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We’re hanging on to the outside for all we’re worth, convinced we’re going to fall off at the next bump (Paul Bowles Quotes) Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary (Paul Bowles Quotes) Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless (Paul Bowles Quotes) A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky’s clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose (Paul Bowles Quotes) The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above (Paul Bowles Quotes)