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

Roberto Bolano

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
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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Art Lying Ourselves Realize
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Attention Hide Kill Oneself Pay Secret
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
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
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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Human Illusion Struggle Survive Swallow Time
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
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
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
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
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
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
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

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

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