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Every hundred feet the world changes.

Roberto Bolano

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
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
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
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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Dreams Fingers Thinking Touching
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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Book Control Desire Myself People Reading Writing
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
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
The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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Children Grow Up Life Philosophy Stop Truth
No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Attention Hide Kill Oneself Pay Secret
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
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
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World

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