Reading is more important than writing.
ROBERTO BOLANOWhen I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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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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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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One should read Borges more.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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