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Paul Bowles quotes about dark

American Composer December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999

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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... Paul Bowles
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. Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles quote: "There is a way to master silenceControl its curves, inhabit..."
There is a way to master silenceControl its curves, inhabit its dark cornersAnd listen to the hiss of time outside Paul Bowles
the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there, protecting us from what's behind . . . [from] nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night. Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles quote: "How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the..."
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

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