If life is misery, why do we endure it?
ROBERTO BOLANONothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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