We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
Interpretation
Embracing the inevitability of death can lead to a deeper appreciation for life.
Roberto Bolano's quote suggests that the process of dying, both metaphorically and literally, is an inherent part of existence. This gradual decline can be transformative, allowing us to appreciate life more fully. By accepting the cyclical nature of life and death, we can find a sense of aliveness that transcends the fear of mortality, embracing both the wisdom that comes with age and the vibrancy of living fully.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about living fully in the face of challenges.
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
Being alone makes us stronger. Thatβs the honest truth. But itβs cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time. History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
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