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

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
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Seeming
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Treading
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Metaphors

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