Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand 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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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 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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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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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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