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Paul Bowles quotes

American Composer December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999

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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
If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another. Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles quote: "Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and..."
Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost. Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles quote: "The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people..."
The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. 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
Many days later another caravan was passing and a man saw something on top of the highest dune there. And when they went up to see, they found Outka, Mimouna and Aicha; they were still there, lying the same way as when they had gone to sleep. And all three of the glasses,' he held up his own little tea glass, 'were full of sand. That was how they had their tea in the Sahara. Paul Bowles
Whoever invented the concept of fairness, anyway? Isn't everything easier if you simply get rid of the idea of justice altogether? You think the quantity of pleasure, the degree of suffering is constant among all men? 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 serves as an anesthetic. Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles quote: "She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."
She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze. Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles quote: "The soul is the weariest part of the body."
The soul is the weariest part of the body. Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles quote: "The wind blew the dust along the ground into his mouth as he..."
The wind blew the dust along the ground into his mouth as he sang. Paul Bowles
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. Paul Bowles

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