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Because we don't know when

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable 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, some afternoon that is so deeply part of your being that you, that you can't even conceive of your life without it. Perhaps four or 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, The Sheltering Sky

Posted by Adam on December 19, 2002 2:58 PM |

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awesome poetic sentiment, illustrative and provocative

thanks

Posted by: Dave | December 22, 2002 4:17 PM

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