Only in chaos are we conceivable.
ROBERTO BOLANOLiterature + Illness = Illness.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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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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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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One should read Borges more.
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