In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
ROBERTO BOLANOJesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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