Literature + Illness = Illness.
ROBERTO BOLANOBright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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One should read Borges more.
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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.
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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).
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