Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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