Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
ROBERTO BOLANOOne should read Borges more.
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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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 like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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