The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
ROBERTO BOLANOWe never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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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 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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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