Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens 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.
-- Words inscribed on the gravestone of Brandon Lee
Monday, July 11, 2005
Because we don't know when we will die...
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This is actually from "Under a Sheltering Sky" by Paul Bowles, which was made into the movie "Sheltering Sky". He appears in the movie at the very end to deliver this line. That delivery appears as a sample in Neurosis' "Lost" from Enemy of the Sun. Brandon Lee canbe found quoting this on YouTube.
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