Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
ROBERTO BOLANOIf you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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One should read Borges more.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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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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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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