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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.

Roberto Bolano

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Contamination Game Poetry
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
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 I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
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
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
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
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
If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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Arrogance Disrespect Ego Yourself
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World

Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.

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