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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats

Roberto Bolano

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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Himself Laughter Reading Sadness Study
I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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Approach Edge Friendship Love Nerve
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
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
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
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
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’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Contamination Game Poetry
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
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing

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