Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
ROBERTO BOLANODeath, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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One should read Borges more.
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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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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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