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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

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
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
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
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
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
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
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
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Alive Death End Gradual Infinite
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
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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Ability Goal Lost Potential Tiger
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
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

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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