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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

Roberto Bolano

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Roberto Bolano
Age: 50 †
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
Died: 2003
Died: July 16
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Santiago
Chile
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Reading
Knowledge
Happiness
Sadness
Questions
Alive
Pleasure

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