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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.

Roberto Bolano

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
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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Alien Each Other Moments Place Sound
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Dreams Fade Goodness Light Morning
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
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
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
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
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
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
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
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling

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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