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.
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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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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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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One should read Borges more.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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