The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
ROBERTO BOLANOWhen 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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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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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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