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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.

Roberto Bolano

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
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
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
Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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Believe Frame Innocent Masterpiece Soul Work
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
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Realize
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
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
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
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
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
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
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
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’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.
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Approach Edge Friendship Love Nerve
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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Assume Lose Sea Water

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