Only in chaos are we conceivable.
ROBERTO BOLANONothing is ever behind us.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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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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I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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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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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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