Nothing is ever behind us.
ROBERTO BOLANOWe never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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.
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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.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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One should read Borges more.
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So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.
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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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