If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
ROBERTO BOLANOAs time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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 her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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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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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 realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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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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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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 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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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