Paul Bowles citations

The Sheltering Sky (1949)
Contexte: 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, some 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 twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

Source: The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Spider's House

The Sheltering Sky (1949)

Source: Let It Come Down (1952), p. 238

The Sheltering Sky (1949)

Source: Let It Come Down (1952), p. 199

Source: Up Above the World (1966), p. 23

Source: The Sheltering Sky (1949), p. 210

Source: Points in Time (1982), p. 28

Letter to Charles Henri Ford (25 January 1948), as published in In Touch : The Letters of Paul Bowles (1995) edited by Jeffrey Miller, p. 192

Source: Let It Come Down (1952), p. 231

Source: The Sheltering Sky (1949), p. 65