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.
ROBERTO BOLANOI’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).
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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