Reading is more important than writing.
ROBERTO BOLANOMetaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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