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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Roberto Bolano

Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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Each Other Head Past Touch Universe
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Death Passage Reality Tradition
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
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
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
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
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
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
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
They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.
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Himself Laughter Reading Sadness Study
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
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
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth

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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