I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
ROBERTO BOLANOWe never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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One should read Borges more.
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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.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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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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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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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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