Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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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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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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’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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For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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