Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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One should read Borges more.
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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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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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Nothing is ever behind us.
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You run risks. That’s the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny’s whims.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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