Roberto Bolano Quotes

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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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  Looks, Know How, Knows

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• Every hundred feet the world changes

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  Inspirational, Travel, Feet

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• The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

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  Alive, World, Fortune

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• Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

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  Beach, Reading, Thinking

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• Only in chaos are we conceivable.

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  Chaos

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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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  Running, Art, Lying

  "Last Evenings on Earth". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2006.

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• we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

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  Desperation, Moments

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• What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others...And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?

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  Believe, Eye, Simple

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• Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

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  Flower, Lakes, Mushrooms

  "2666: A Novel". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2008.

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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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  Dream, Night, Touching

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• Nothing is ever behind us.

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  Past, Behinds

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• There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

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  Struggle, Fists, Reciting

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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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  Alive, Now And Then, Ends

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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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  Today, Happened, Ifs

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• Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

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  Games, Poetry, Poetry Is

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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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  Cheer, Honesty, Fun

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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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  Cat, Past, Lions

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• Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book.

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  Book, Childhood, Literature

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• Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

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  Dream, Morning, Light

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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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  Reading, Sadness, Alive

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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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  Thinking, Would Be, Lunatic Asylums

  Mining Mirror magazine, Volume 19, p. 3, 2006.

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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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  Stronger, Comfort, Honest

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• When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

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  Book, Thinking, Squares

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• The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

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  Moon, Night, Air

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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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  Saws, Should, Feels

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