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

Roberto Bolano

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
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
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 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
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
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
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
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
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
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
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Death Passage Reality Tradition
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.
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Himself Laughter Reading Sadness Study
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity

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

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