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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).

Roberto Bolano

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
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
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
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
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
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
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Death Passage Reality Tradition
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.
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Himself Laughter Reading Sadness Study
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
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

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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