You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said that life was wrong. What do I say now? You understand?
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 … - Paul Bowles
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 …
- Paul Bowles
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, mo… - Paul Bowles
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, mo…
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 h… - Paul Bowles
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 h…
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
How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.
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 … - Paul Bowles
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 …
Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost. - Paul Bowles
Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.
The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature. - Paul Bowles
The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.
Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better. - Paul Bowles
Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.
Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations. - Paul Bowles
Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.
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