“...posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats...” — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“The brief sound is like a color swallowed by a crack. But what color?” — Roberto Bolaño Color Copy Share Image
“I think of all those who believed in a Latin American paradise and died in a Latin American hell.” — Roberto Bolaño Hell Copy Share Image
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune. — Roberto Bolano Alive Copy Share Image
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better — Roberto Bolano Love Copy Share Image
“Suffering is accumulated, said my friend, that’s a fact, and the greater the suffering, the smaller the coincidence.” — Roberto Bolaño Friendship Copy Share Image
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of… — Roberto Bolano Book 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
“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
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths,… — Roberto Bolano Book Copy Share Image
“book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“Maybe "warehouses" equals "mothers", a wide margin of error is permissible when you're dealing with super-impositions.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,… — Roberto Bolaño Book Copy Share Image
“Permanence has been swept aside by the rapidity of empty images. The pantheon, we discover to our astonishment, is the doghouse of… — Roberto Bolaño Permanence Copy Share Image
“This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“but inside she could feel herself starting to scream, or rather, she could feel, and see, the diving line between not-screaming and… — Roberto Bolaño Heart Copy Share Image
“I possessed only a book, which I carried in my small backpack. Suddenly, while I was walking, the book began to burn.… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“Morini read the letter three times. With a heavy heart, he thought how wrong Norton was when she said her love and… — Roberto Bolaño Heavy heart Copy Share Image
“[He] turned his back on the window, not knowing why he had gone to it, not knowing what he hoped to see,… — Roberto Bolaño Flickering Copy Share Image
“Does his family have money?" I asked. "No, Ulises's family doesn't have money," said Requena. "Actually, the only family he has is… — Roberto Bolaño Family Copy Share Image
“Then the sluice gates opened and Lotte said it had been a long time since she saw her brother, that her son… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“For Padilla the shared act of smoking was basically a staging of loneliness: the tough guys, the talkers, the quick to forget… — Roberto Bolaño Broken dreams Copy Share Image
“The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what… — Roberto Bolaño American literature Copy Share Image
“December 9: The Mexican literary mafia has nothing on the Mexican bookseller mafia. Bookstores visited: the Librería del Sótano, in a basement… — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
“Espinoza experienced something similar, though slightly different in two respects. First, the need to be near Liz Norton struck some time before… — Roberto Bolaño Perfect woman Copy Share Image
“He rode well. I'm a good horsewoman, but he was good as I was or maybe better, I don't know. At the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“What a sad paradox, though Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.” — Roberto Bolaño Courage 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
“Only fever and poetry provoke visions. Only love and memory.” — Roberto Bolaño Dreams Copy Share Image
![“[He] turned his back on the window, not knowing why he had gone to it, not knowing what he hoped to see, and just at that moment, when there was no one at the window any more and only a little lamp of colored glass at the back of the room flickering, it appeared.” quote by Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/038/roberto-bola-o-725_flickering_he-turned-his-back-on-the-window-not-kno_3067486.jpg)
