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 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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.
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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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When 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.
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One should read Borges more.
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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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