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

Roberto Bolano

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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Climate Commitment Himself Poet Suicide
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Better Goodness Love Philosophy
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
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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Assume Lose Sea Water
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
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Flower Sky Sunset
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
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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Book Death Philosophy Reading Stop
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
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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Ability Goal Lost Potential Tiger

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