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.
ROBERTO BOLANOFor her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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Nothing is ever behind us.
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