If life is misery, why do we endure it?
ROBERTO BOLANOThen 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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One should read Borges more.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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