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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

Roberto Bolano

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
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
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
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
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 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
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
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
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

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

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