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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

Roberto Bolano

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Construction Knowledge Pleasure Reading Verbal
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
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
Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Contamination Game Poetry
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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Dreams Fingers Thinking Touching
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
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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Group Ignorance Myself Reading World
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
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

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