If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
ROBERTO BOLANOPoetry and prison have always been neighbors.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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One should read Borges more.
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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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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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 world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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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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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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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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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 sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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