Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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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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I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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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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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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