We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
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 sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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One should read Borges more.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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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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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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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 decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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