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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.

Roberto Bolano

Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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Believe Frame Innocent Masterpiece Soul Work
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
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
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
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
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
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
Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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Myself Talk Understand
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
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
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
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World

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