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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.

Roberto Bolano

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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Friendship People Prayer Reading Thinking View Walk
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Construction Knowledge Pleasure Reading Verbal
You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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Plain Risk Run Subject Truth
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
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
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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Children Grow Up Life Philosophy Stop Truth
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
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
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
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.

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