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.
ROBERTO BOLANOEvery book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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