Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
ROBERTO BOLANONothing is ever behind us.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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One should read Borges more.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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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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