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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

Roberto Bolano

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
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
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
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
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
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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Climate Commitment Himself Poet Suicide
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 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
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Realize
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
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
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
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy

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