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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

Roberto Bolano

I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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Group Ignorance Myself Reading World
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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Happiness Knowledge Pleasure Question Reading
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.
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Curiosity End Fun Honesty Voice
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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Alone Company Honesty Myself Strong Truth
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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Arrogance Disrespect Ego Yourself
I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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Approach Edge Friendship Love Nerve
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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Assume Lose Sea Water
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

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