The Sheltering Sky (1990)

Posted by Anton Katunin on 4 June 2016
Tags: movie

- Are you lost?

- Yes

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 small number, really.

How many more times will you remember a certain
afternoon of your childhood... some afternoon so deeply a part of your being so that you can't 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 20.

And yet it all seems limitless...


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