I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
ROBERTO BOLANOIf life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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One should read Borges more.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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