Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
ROBERTO BOLANOIf life is misery, why do we endure it?
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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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