Only in chaos are we conceivable.
ROBERTO BOLANO
ROBERTO BOLANO
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Roberto BolanoRoberto Bolano As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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Roberto BolanoRoberto Bolano 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.
Roberto BolanoRoberto Bolano One should read Borges more.
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Roberto BolanoRoberto Bolano 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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Roberto BolanoRoberto Bolano If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
Roberto BolanoRoberto Bolano 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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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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B.J. PennB.J. Penn Catastrophe and creation are twins.
Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard We choose to believe in Ma’at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That’s what Egypt is all about.
Rick RiordanRick Riordan Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
Chogyam TrungpaChogyam Trungpa When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade Chaos is impatient. It’s random. And above all it’s selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.
Rick RiordanRick Riordan You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage
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