If life is misery, why do we endure it?
ROBERTO BOLANODreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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One should read Borges more.
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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (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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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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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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