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Only in chaos are we conceivable.

Roberto Bolano

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
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
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
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
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
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
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
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
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
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

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

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