We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
ROBERTO BOLANOIf I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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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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