Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of … - Paul Bowles

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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.

Paul Bowles

The Sheltering Sky · 2007 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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

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Alternative Names: Paul Frederic Bowles

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The people of each country get more like the people of every other country. They have no character, no beauty, no ideals, no culture-nothing, nothing.”…
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