Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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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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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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