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

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
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
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
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
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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Human Illusion Struggle Survive Swallow Time
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
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
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
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
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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Plain Risk Run Subject Truth
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
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
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

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