Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
ROBERTO BOLANOWhen 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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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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I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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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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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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For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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