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  1. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    Tunner's presence created a situation, however slight, which kept him from entering into the reflective state he considered essential.
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  2. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?
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  3. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    Another important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to this liking.
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  4. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    Here we say that life is a cliff, and you must never turn around and look back when you're climbing.
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  5. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    Only then did he understand that he really wanted to know nothing about El Ga'a beyond the fact that it was isolated and unfrequented, that it was precisely those things he had been trying to ascertain about it.
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  6. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    Ogniqualvolta si trovava in viaggio da un luogo all'altro, era in grado di valutare la propria vita con un po' più di obiettività del solito. Spesso, proprio durante un viaggio i suoi pensieri divenivano particolarmente lucidi, e prendeva decisioni cui non poteva arrivare quand'era fermo in un luogo.
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  7. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    But there was never any knowing or any certitude; the time to come always had more than one possible direction.
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  8. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    his behavior there was a perfect balance between gentleness and violence that gave her particular delight.
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  9. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    If she could only give up, relax, and live in the perfect knowledge that there was no hope."
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  10. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    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.
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  11. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    But there was never any knowing or any certitude; the time to come always had more than one possible direction. One could not even give up hope. The wind would blow, the sand would settle, and in some as yet unforeseen manner time would bring about a change which could only be terrifying, since it would not be a continuation of the present.
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  12. Paul Bowles _ The Sheltering Sky

    You know what?" he said with great earnestness. "I think we're both afraid of the same thing. And for the same reason. We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump. Isn't that true?
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