The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
ROBERTO BOLANOThen he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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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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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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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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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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