Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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