Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
ROBERTO BOLANOI’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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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