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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Roberto Bolano

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
Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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Myself Talk Understand
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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Book Death Philosophy Reading Stop
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
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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Arrest Myself Retard Thinking
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
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
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
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
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
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
Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Dreams Fade Goodness Light Morning
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

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

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