Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
ROBERTO BOLANOIf 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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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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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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