Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
ROBERTO BOLANOLiterature + Illness = Illness.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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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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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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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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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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