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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

Roberto Bolano

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
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Attention Hide Kill Oneself Pay Secret
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
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
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
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
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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Climate Commitment Himself Poet Suicide
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
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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Constant Mirror Pain Poverty Voice Wealth
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
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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Feeling Happiness Myself Realize
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing

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