Nothing is ever behind us.
ROBERTO BOLANODeath, 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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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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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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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide 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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One should read Borges more.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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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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When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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