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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.

Roberto Bolano

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
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
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
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
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
The 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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Children Grow Up Life Philosophy Stop Truth
When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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Body Bone Death Sorrow Yourself
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
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
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Construction Knowledge Pleasure Reading Verbal
You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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Plain Risk Run Subject Truth

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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