The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
ROBERTO BOLANOThere is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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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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