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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.

Roberto Bolano

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
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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Ability Goal Lost Potential Tiger
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
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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Believe Frame Innocent Masterpiece Soul Work
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
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
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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Happiness Knowledge Pleasure Question Reading
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
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

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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