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.
ROBERTO BOLANOYou run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
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One should read Borges more.
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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I’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).
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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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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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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