Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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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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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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 interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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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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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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