No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
ROBERTO BOLANOSo 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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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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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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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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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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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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But 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.
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