Saturday, July 30, 2011

Commonplace Book

"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's 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."

-- Paul Bowles

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The flip side of this is that certain things happen WAY too often in a lifetime, and you'd be glad to NEVER bring them to mind, if possible!....L.B.