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title: "2 Finiteness Life Quotes by 1 author"
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> [“Death is always on its way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life…we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens only a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/death-is-always-on-its-way-but-the-fact-that-you-don-t-know-when-it/)

[Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/)

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> [“Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/death-is-always-on-the-way-but-the-fact-that-you-don-t-know-when-it/)

[Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/)

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