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.
ROBERTO BOLANOBright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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If life is misery, why do we endure 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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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 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 sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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