Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
ROBERTO BOLANOEvery book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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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 and prison have always been neighbors.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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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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