Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component p… - Paul Bowles

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Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally am content to see everything in the process of decay. The bigger the bombs, the quicker it will be done. The world is visually too hideous for one to make the attempt to preserve it. Let it go.

Paul Bowles

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Paul Bowles (30 December 1910 – 18 November 1999) was a composer, author, and traveler.

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