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.
ROBERTO BOLANOOne should read Borges more.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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One should read Borges more.
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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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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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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Nothing is ever behind us.
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