Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
ROBERTO BOLANOAs time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.
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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.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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One should read Borges more.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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