Nothing is ever behind us.
ROBERTO BOLANONo one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.
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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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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 kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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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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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 truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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