The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
ROBERTO BOLANOIf life is misery, why do we endure it?
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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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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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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One should read Borges more.
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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 moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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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.
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