I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
ROBERTO BOLANOFor 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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 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.
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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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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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Nothing is ever behind us.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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