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Reading is more important than writing.

Roberto Bolano

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
Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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Each Other Head Past Touch Universe
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
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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Constant Mirror Pain Poverty Voice Wealth
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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Alone Company Honesty Myself Strong Truth
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
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

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