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.
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 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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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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One should read Borges more.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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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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