Roberto Bolano Quotes

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• Every hundred feet the world changes

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  Inspirational, Travel, Feet

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

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  Struggle, Fists, Reciting

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

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  Desperation, Moments

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• Only in chaos are we conceivable.

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  Chaos

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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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• 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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• 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 truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

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  Children, Age, Veins

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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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• Nothing is ever behind us.

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  Past, Behinds

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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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• If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

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  Expectations, Want, What You Want

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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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• 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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