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.
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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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 is ever behind us.
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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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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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