The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
ROBERTO BOLANOEvery book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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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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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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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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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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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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