I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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One should read Borges more.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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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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The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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