Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
ROBERTO BOLANOIn some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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