In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
ROBERTO BOLANOReading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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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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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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