I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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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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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 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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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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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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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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