Nothing is ever behind us.
ROBERTO BOLANOI 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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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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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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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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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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