Only in chaos are we conceivable.
ROBERTO BOLANOI’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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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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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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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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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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One should read Borges more.
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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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