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.
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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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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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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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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One should read Borges more.
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