Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
ROBERTO BOLANOwe interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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One should read Borges more.
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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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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