Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
ROBERTO BOLANOJesus 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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If life is misery, why do we endure 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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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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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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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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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’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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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