We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?

Roberto Bolano

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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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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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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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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.

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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.

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When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

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I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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Approach Edge Nerve
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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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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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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Passage Tradition
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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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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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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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color
The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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Known Oneself
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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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
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.

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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.
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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?

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