The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
ROBERTO BOLANOReading 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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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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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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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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