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.
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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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 life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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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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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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