Reading is more important than writing.
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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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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Nothing is ever behind us.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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.
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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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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 decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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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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