Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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One should read Borges more.
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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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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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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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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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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