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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.

Roberto Bolano

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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Climate Commitment Himself Poet Suicide
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
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
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
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
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
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
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
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
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
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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Known Live Oneself Secret Story Thinking
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.

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