Final scene of The Sheltering Sky by Bernardo Bertolucci, featuring Paul Bowles' monologue

Are you lost?
Yes

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think that life is an inexhaustible world. 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, that afternoon is so deep part of your being that you can't even conceive 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.



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