Every hundred feet the world changes.
ROBERTO BOLANOIf life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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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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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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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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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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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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