The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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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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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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Nothing is ever behind us.
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