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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

Roberto Bolano

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
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
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
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
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
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
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
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
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
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
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

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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