Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
ROBERTO BOLANOOne should read Borges more.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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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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I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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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 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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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