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.
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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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One should read Borges more.
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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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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