This quote is on the tombstone of Brandon Lee, the famous Asian actor who is buried beside his famous father, Bruce Lee. It comes from a book called The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. “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.
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