In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
ROBERTO BOLANOI’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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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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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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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 hundred feet the world changes.
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