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

Roberto Bolano

If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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Arrogance Disrespect Ego Yourself
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
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
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
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
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
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
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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Book Death Philosophy Reading Stop
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
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
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 world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

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