Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
ROBERTO BOLANOReading is more important than writing.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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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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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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