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.
Paul BowlesTag: contemplation
Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and music from the other rooms into a state of vague ecstasy, while he contemplated the small sheet of water outside the window. It was that happy frame of mind into which his people could project themselves so easily - the mere absence of immediate unpleasant preoccupation could start it off, and a landscape which included the sea, a river, a fountain, or anything that occupied the eye without engaging the mind, was of use in sustaining it. It was the world behind the world, where reflection precludes the necessity for action, and the calm which all things seek in death appears briefly in the guise of contentment, the spirit at last persuaded that the still waters of perfection are reachable.
Paul BowlesTag: perfection contemplation
After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.
Paul BowlesTag: stiff-upper-lip
The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.
Paul BowlesBut don't we all like to be overpowered, one time or another.
Paul BowlesTag: overpowered
He could not feel at ease with gourmets and hedonists; they were a hostile species.
Paul BowlesOne of these days the future will be here, and you won't be ready for it.
Paul BowlesTag: the-future
...a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.
Paul BowlesTag: writing reason-for-living
Writing is harmless, and it keeps me in dinners and out of trouble.
Paul BowlesTag: writing
...he refused to consider the Moroccans' present culture, however decadent, an established fact, an existing thing. Instead, he seemed to believe that it was something accidentally left over from bygone centuries, now in a necessary state of transition, that the people needed temporary guidance in order to progress to some better condition.
Paul BowlesTag: transition culture
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