I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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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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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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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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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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