Only in chaos are we conceivable.
ROBERTO BOLANOI’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).
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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.
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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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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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