If life is misery, why do we endure it?
ROBERTO BOLANOReading is more important than writing.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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