Nothing is ever behind us.
ROBERTO BOLANOIf life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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