Nothing is ever behind us.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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