You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
ROBERTO BOLANONothing is ever behind us.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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 pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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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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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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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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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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One should read Borges more.
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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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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.
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