The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
ROBERTO BOLANOOnly in chaos are we conceivable.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.
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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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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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