Nothing is ever behind us.
ROBERTO BOLANOOne should read Borges more.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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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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They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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