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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.

Roberto Bolano

Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
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
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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Human Illusion Struggle Survive Swallow Time
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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Friendship People Prayer Reading Thinking View Walk
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
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
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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Book Control Desire Myself People Reading Writing
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
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
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
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading

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