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

Roberto Bolano

Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
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
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
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
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 Friendship Love Nerve
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
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
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
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
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
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
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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Ability Goal Lost Potential Tiger
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle

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

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