Paul Bowles
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To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him t... 
The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet be... 
He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for b... 
What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his... 
[B]ecause of all his previous attempts to integrate with the rest of society and what he had learned... 
And if Amsterdam was hell, and if hell was a memory, then he realized that perhaps there was some pu... 
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would... 
Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to ble... 
Humility is by far the most spiritual virtue of the lot. The only way by which one may cease obsessi... 
You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the... 
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of... 
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit
with dignity all the days of... 
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man oug... 
No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... 
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his he... 
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know t... 
Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, ... 
He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he ... 
...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't... 
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. . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at ... 
The Dog and the Shadow
A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, sa... 
He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance a... 
Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his mere... 
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At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck's feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud... 
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Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expand... 
Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, ... 
He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out abo... 
He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an... 
I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forev... 
The Ass and His Purchaser
A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that
he should... 
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I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ... 
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As Adrian hurried past the Senate House he noticed two old men standing outside Bowes and Bowes. He ... 
Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be Hi... 
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and ... 
The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you a... 
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I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - t... 
Suppose some one asserts of his lustful appetite that, when the desired object and the opportunity a... 
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The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time an... 
No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from whi... 
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There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at th... 
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To... 
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The cause of freedom is the cause of God. 
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Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. 
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. 
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to peop... 
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ... 
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and... 
Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is on... 
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much. 
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and... 
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. 
Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending... 
Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? 
As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances. 
Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived... 
How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui... 
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t... 
All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ... 
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it'... 
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. 
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two to... 
A winner never whines. 
We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the l... 
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pu... 
Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - peopl... 
When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that ... 