I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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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 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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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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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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