One should read Borges more.
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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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.
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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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Nothing is ever behind us.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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