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

Roberto Bolano

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
Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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Myself Talk Understand
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
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
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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Arrest Myself Retard Thinking
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
Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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Each Other Head Past Touch Universe
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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Book Control Desire Myself People Reading Writing
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Contamination Game Poetry
I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Realize

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

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