Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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One should read Borges more.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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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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