Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe 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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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One should read Borges more.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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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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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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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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