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Each time I go to a place I h...

Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know. I assume it is natural for a traveler to seek diversity, and that it is the human element that makes him most aware of difference. If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

Pol Bowls

It's very hard to write about...

It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There's no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody's got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it.

Pol Bowls

Everyone is isolated from eve...

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.

Pol Bowls

Because we don't know when we...

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

Pol Bowls

That was what he wanted, to b...

That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.

Pol Bowls

The only effort worth making ...

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

Pol Bowls

Although I knew enough Freud ...

Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me that any conscious manifestation of sex was necessarily ludicrous. Defecation and copulation were two activities which made a human being totally ridiculous. At least the former could be conducted in private, but the latter by definition demanded a partner. I discovered, though, that whenever I ventured this opinion, people took it as a joke.

Pol Bowls

He awoke, opened his eye. The...

He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just come. If he had not the energy to ascertain his position in time and space, he also lacked the desire. ... In utter comfort, utter relaxation he lay absolutely still for a while, and then sank back into on the the light momentary sleeps that occur after a long, profound one.

Pol Bowls

Since the world began has any...

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.

Pol Bowls

How many more times will you ...

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

Pol Bowls

The only thing that makes lif...

The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.

Pol Bowls

Not all the ravages caused by...

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

Pol Bowls

It's unnecessary and destruct...

It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.

Pol Bowls

One never took the time to sa...

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

Pol Bowls

You will find yourself among ...

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 that life was wrong. What do I say now? You understand?

Pol Bowls

She was saved from prettiness...

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

Pol Bowls

There is a way to master sile...

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

Pol Bowls

If you don't know why you lik...

If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out.

Pol Bowls

The sky hides the night behin...

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

Pol Bowls

If people and their manner of...

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

Pol Bowls

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