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 BOLANOWe 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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