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 BOLANOBeing 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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One should read Borges more.
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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