Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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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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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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