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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.
         

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.


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How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.



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Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.



The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.



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.

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.



Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.



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

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



The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.



She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.



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

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



Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.





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