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.
ROBERTO BOLANOIn some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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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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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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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’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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One should read Borges more.
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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 moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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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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