If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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One should read Borges more.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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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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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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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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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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