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

Roberto Bolano

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
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
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Attention Hide Kill Oneself Pay Secret
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
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
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
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
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
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
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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Arrest Myself Retard Thinking
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
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
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World

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