We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
ROBERTO BOLANOEvery book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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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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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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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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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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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