The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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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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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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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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