You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
ROBERTO BOLANONothing is ever behind us.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Reading is more important than writing.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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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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I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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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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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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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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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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