If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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