Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
ROBERTO BOLANOIn the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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One should read Borges more.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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