The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
ROBERTO BOLANOwe interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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One should read Borges more.
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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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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 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.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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