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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

Roberto Bolano

If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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Arrogance Disrespect Ego Yourself
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
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
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
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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Each Other Head Past Touch Universe
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
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
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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Myself Talk Understand
For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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Alien Each Other Moments Place Sound
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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Book Death Philosophy Reading Stop
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
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments

I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

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