For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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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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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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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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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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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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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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