Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
I Know What I Know
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)
“You said that the mind is like the wind, but perhaps it is we who are like the wind. Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying”
Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 16: The Coming of Winter
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