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.
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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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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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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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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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