If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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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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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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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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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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