Nothing is ever behind us.
ROBERTO BOLANOYou have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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One should read Borges more.
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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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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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