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.
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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
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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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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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