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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

Roberto Bolano

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Construction Knowledge Pleasure Reading Verbal
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Known Yourself
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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Dreams Fingers Thinking Touching
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
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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Friendship People Prayer Reading Thinking View Walk
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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Arrest Myself Retard Thinking
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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Feeling Happiness Myself Realize
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
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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Book Control Desire Myself People Reading Writing
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
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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Human Illusion Struggle Survive Swallow Time
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World

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