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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.

— Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky (1949)

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A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

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Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.

Points in Time (1982)

For God's sake, sit down. You look like a Calvinist rector telling his flock about Hell.

Let It Come Down (1952)

"We're all monsters," said Daisy with enthusiasm. "It's the Age of Monsters."

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For in order to avoid having to deal with relative values, he had long since come to deny all purpose to the phenomenon of existence — it was more expedient and comforting.

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