we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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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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 sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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