Death Quote by Paul Bowles

“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 certain number of times...How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps…” quote by Paul Bowles — Download Open image

““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 certain number of times...How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet is all seems limitless.””

Paul Bowles

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