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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

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
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
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
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
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
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.
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Curiosity End Fun Honesty Voice
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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Arrest Myself Retard Thinking
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 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
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity

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