Every hundred feet the world changes.
ROBERTO BOLANOThere is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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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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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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Nothing is ever behind us.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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