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.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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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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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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One should read Borges more.
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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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