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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.

Roberto Bolano

We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
Then 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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Each Other Head Past Touch Universe
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
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
I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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Approach Edge Friendship Love Nerve
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
One should read Borges more.
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Book Oneself Reading
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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Happiness Knowledge Pleasure Question Reading
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
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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Plain Risk Run Subject Truth
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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Alien Each Other Moments Place Sound
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
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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Alive Death End Gradual Infinite

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