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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

Roberto Bolano

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
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
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
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
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
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
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
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
We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
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Alive Death End Gradual Infinite
I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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Group Ignorance Myself Reading World
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World

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