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.
ROBERTO BOLANOWhen you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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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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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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Nothing is ever behind us.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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