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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.

Roberto Bolano

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Dreams Fade Goodness Light Morning
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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Ability Goal Lost Potential Tiger
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
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
The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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Children Grow Up Life Philosophy Stop Truth
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
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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Friendship People Prayer Reading Thinking View Walk
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
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
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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Art Lying Ourselves Realize

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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