I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
ROBERTO BOLANOJesus 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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One should read Borges more.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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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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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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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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 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.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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