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.
ROBERTO BOLANODreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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 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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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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 world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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