Roberto Bolano Quotes

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• Every hundred feet the world changes

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  Inspirational, Travel, Feet

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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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• Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.

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  Law, Doe, Gestures

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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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• I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion.

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  Summer, Dream, Sleep

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

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  Desperation, Moments

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Suicide, Political, Climate

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• Nothing is ever behind us.

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  Past, Behinds

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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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• 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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• No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

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  Secret, Attention, World

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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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• There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.

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  Girl, College, California

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• Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

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  Love Is, Something Better

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• I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

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  Relax, And Love, Nerves

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• Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

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  Rain, Blood, Sweat

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• The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

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  Flower, Sunset, Sky

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