Roberto Bolano Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.

  Roberto Bolano

  Past, Two, Rivers

• In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

  Roberto Bolano

  Cat, Past, Lions

• 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.

  Roberto Bolano

  Past, Touching, Village

• Nothing is ever behind us.

  Roberto Bolano

  Past, Behinds

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