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

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
The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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Children Grow Up Life Philosophy Stop Truth
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
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
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
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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Alien Each Other Moments Place Sound
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Contamination Game Poetry
Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Dreams Fade Goodness Light Morning
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Realize
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time

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

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