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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

Roberto Bolano

If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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Human Illusion Struggle Survive Swallow Time
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
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
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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Constant Mirror Pain Poverty Voice Wealth
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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Alien Each Other Moments Place Sound
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
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait 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
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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Believe Frame Innocent Masterpiece Soul Work
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
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

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

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