vijay’s posterous

Something as meaningful as this really helps to ground you back into reality, both when things are going unbelievably well and when nothing appears to be going well. Keep it in your back pocket. Comes in handy.

"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet 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, an afternoon that is 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..."

-- Brandon Lee from The Crow DVD

-- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky [original author of the quote]

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