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.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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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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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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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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