When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
ROBERTO BOLANOBut 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.
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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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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One should read Borges more.
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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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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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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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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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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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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