Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
ROBERTO BOLANOEvery hundred feet the world changes.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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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 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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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