The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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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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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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