If life is misery, why do we endure it?
ROBERTO BOLANOThe sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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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When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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