Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
ROBERTO BOLANOOne should read Borges more.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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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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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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