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.
ROBERTO BOLANOI 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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 never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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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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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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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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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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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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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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