Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
ROBERTO BOLANONothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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 + Illness = Illness.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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