Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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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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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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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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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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 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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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