You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.” — Roberto Bolaño Saddened Copy Share Image
“Nothing lasts, the purely loving gestures of children tumble into the void.” — Roberto Bolaño Child Copy Share Image
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“pain is our only connection with life; only pain can reveal what life is.” — Roberto Bolaño Life Copy Share Image
If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear. — Roberto Bolano Expectations Copy Share Image
Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight. — Roberto Bolano Dream Copy Share Image
“I'd love her until the end of time, he thought. An hour later he'd already forgotten the matter completely.” — Roberto Bolaño End of time Copy Share Image
“With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.” — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. — Roberto Bolano Book Copy Share Image
“Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to… — Roberto Bolaño Courage Copy Share Image
“Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word life ,… — Roberto Bolaño Happiness Copy Share Image
“With the innocence of the dead, who no longer mind being observed, the people in the photographs gazed out on the professors'… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles,… — Roberto Bolaño Book Copy Share Image
Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“La literatura se parece mucho a la pelea de los samuráis, pero un samurái no pelea contra otro samurái: pelea contra un… — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
“Amalfitano remembered a time when he believed that nothing happened by chance, everything happened for some reason, but when was that time?… — Roberto Bolaño Time Copy Share Image
“A rather small statue of Ernesto Cardenal shall stand in a Nicaraguan square in the year 2018. But all statues tumble eventually,… — Roberto Bolaño Divine intervention Copy Share Image
“He dreamed that he and Elvira Campos lived together in a cabin in the mountains. The cabin didn't have electricity or running… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know… — Roberto Bolaño Laugh Copy Share Image
“If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“When he went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror, he thought his features were changing. I look like… — Roberto Bolaño Mirror Copy Share Image
“…dazzled by the shine of their own virtue, a shine that might not last (since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has… — Roberto Bolaño Virtue Copy Share Image
“In a word, and bluntly: as they walked around Sankt Pauli, it came to Pelletier and Espinoza that the search for Archimboldi… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Ulazim u njihove snove. Ulazim u njihove najsramnije misli, u svakom sam drhtaju, u svakom grču njihovih duša, uvlačim se u njihova… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“As far as Popescu was concerned, meanwhile, Dracula was simply a Romanian patriot who had resisted the Turks, a deed for which… — Roberto Bolaño Different perspective Copy Share Image
“It was raining in the quadrangle, and the quadrangular sky looked like a grimace of a robot or a god made in… — Roberto Bolaño Drinking tea Copy Share Image
“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“Around this time, Pelletier and Espinoza, worried about the current state of their mutual lover, had two long conversations on the phone.… — Roberto Bolaño American literature Copy Share Image
“...then it wouldn't be a bad thing, or at least not the worst thing, to enter the third millenium asking for forgiveness… — Roberto Bolaño Asking for forgiveness Copy Share Image
“He said that for those who hadn't been to California, what it was most like was an enchanted island. The spitting image.… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
![“[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know the story, the real story. And it is simple and cruel and true and it should make us laugh, it should make us die laughing. But we only know how to cry, the only thing we do…” quote by Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/446/roberto-bola-o-725_real-story_a-nd-the-wizened-youth-trembles-more-and_1582042.jpg)
