We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
ROBERTO BOLANOOnly in chaos are we conceivable.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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Nothing is ever behind us.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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