If life is misery, why do we endure it?
ROBERTO BOLANO
As 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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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One should read Borges more.
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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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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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