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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.

Roberto Bolano

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
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 Live Oneself Secret Story Thinking
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
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
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
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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Book Death Philosophy Reading Stop
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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Assume Lose Sea Water
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
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
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange

The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.

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