Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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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 good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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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’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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One should read Borges more.
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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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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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Jesus 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.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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