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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.

Roberto Bolano

Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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Each Other Head Past Touch Universe
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
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
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
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
Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Dreams Fade Goodness Light Morning
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
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
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
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
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
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset

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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