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

Roberto Bolano

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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Art Lying Ourselves Realize
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
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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Body Bone Death Sorrow Yourself
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.
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Curiosity End Fun Honesty Voice
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
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
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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Alone Company Honesty Myself Strong Truth
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
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
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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Known Live Oneself Secret Story Thinking

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