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Reading is more important than writing.

Roberto Bolano

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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Art Lying Ourselves Realize
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
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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Happiness Knowledge Pleasure Question Reading
When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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Body Bone Death Sorrow Yourself
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
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
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
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
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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Known Live Oneself Secret Story Thinking
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
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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Arrogance Disrespect Ego Yourself
Reading is more important than writing.
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