We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
ROBERTO BOLANOI decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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One should read Borges more.
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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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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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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