“I’m mercurial, sometimes I want greatness, sometimes just its shadow.” — Roberto Bolaño Greatness Copy Share Image
“Our necessity. Our open mouth Where bread Goes in And dreams Come out.” — Roberto Bolaño Dream Copy Share Image
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me. — Roberto Bolano Book Copy Share Image
“Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen.” — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time.” — Roberto Bolaño Solitude Copy Share Image
“Leave the book alone, pretend it doesn’t exist, forget about it, said Amalfitano, you’ve never been interested in geometry.” — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged… — Roberto Bolano Aliens Copy Share Image
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Then they talked about freedom and evil, about the highways of freedom where evil is like a Ferrari.” — Roberto Bolaño Freedom Copy Share Image
“No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been… — Roberto Bolaño Chance Copy Share Image
“Besides Archimboldi, there was one thing Morini, Pelletier, and Espinoza had in common. All three had iron wills. Actually, they had one… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of… — Roberto Bolaño Book 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of… — Roberto Bolano America Copy Share Image
“Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a great writer and son of a bitch. Just an abject human being. It’s incredible that the coldest moments of… — Roberto Bolaño Abject Copy Share Image
“I paid the taxi driver, got out with my suitcase, surveyed my surroundings, and just as I was turning to ask the… — Roberto Bolaño Alone Copy Share Image
“The heart of the matter is whether knowing evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random… — Roberto Bolaño Destiny Copy Share Image
“Anyway, these ideas or feelings or ramblings had their satisfactions. They turned the pain of others into memories of one’s own. They… — Roberto Bolaño Freedom Copy Share Image
“They talked about what they’d felt as they rained blows on the fallen body. A combination of sleepiness and sexual desire. Desire… — Roberto Bolaño Empty hands Copy Share Image
“He was an atheist and it had been years since he read a book, despite the fact that he had amassed a… — Roberto Bolaño Atheism Copy Share Image
“Ivanov's fear was of a literary nature. That is, it was the fear that afflicts most citizens who, one fine (or dark)… — Roberto Bolaño Dining alone Copy Share Image
“I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov,… — Roberto Bolaño Criticism Copy Share Image
“The strangest part of the dream,' said Pelletier, 'was the water was alive.” — Roberto Bolaño Dream Copy Share Image
There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California. — Roberto Bolano California Copy Share Image
“Hay momentos para recitar poesías y hay momentos para boxear.” — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats — Roberto Bolano Cat Copy Share Image
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