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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Roberto Bolano

When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Dreams Fade Goodness Light Morning
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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Alive Death End Gradual Infinite
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 more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
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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Curiosity End Fun Honesty Voice
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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Group Ignorance Myself Reading World
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
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
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Death Passage Reality Tradition
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
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
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

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