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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.

Roberto Bolano

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Contamination

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Recite
Every hundred feet the world changes.

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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.

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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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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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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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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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Sadness
But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.

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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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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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End
The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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Known Oneself
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?

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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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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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Retard
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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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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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.

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