When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
ROBERTO BOLANOI’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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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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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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For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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