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.
ROBERTO BOLANONothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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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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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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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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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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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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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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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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