Only in chaos are we conceivable.
ROBERTO BOLANOAs 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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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