Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
ROBERTO BOLANOYou run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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