Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
ROBERTO BOLANOReading is more important than writing.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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.
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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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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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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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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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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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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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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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 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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