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> [“What a sad paradox, though Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze the path into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/what-a-sad-paradox-though-amalfitano-now-even-bookish-pharmacists-are/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

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> [“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/he-chose-the-metamorphosis-over-the-trial-he-chose-bartleby-over-moby/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

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## More by Roberto Bolaño

> [Literature + Illness = Illness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/literature-illness-illness/)

[Roberto Bolano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [“Brief like beauty, Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/brief-like-beauty-absolute-beauty-that-which-contains-all-the-world-s/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/there-are-books-for-when-you-re-bored-plenty-of-them-there-are-books/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [“I try to find the books that I lost or forgot more than 30 years ago on another continent, with the hope and dedication…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/i-try-to-find-the-books-that-i-lost-or-forgot-more-than-30-years-ago/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [“In a word, and bluntly: as they walked around Sankt Pauli, it came to Pelletier and Espinoza that the search for Archimboldi could never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/in-a-word-and-bluntly-as-they-walked-around-sankt-pauli-it-came-to/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/we-re-artists-too-but-we-do-a-good-job-hiding-it-don-t-we/)

[Roberto Bolano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/nothing-good-ever-comes-of-love-what-comes-of-love-is-always/)

[Roberto Bolano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [“book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time beside the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/book-on-archimboldi-a-book-that-might-be-the-grand-archimboldian-opus/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/literature-is-the-product-of-a-strange-rain-of-blood-sweat-semen-and/)

[Roberto Bolano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [“The brief sound is like a color swallowed by a crack. But what color?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/the-brief-sound-is-like-a-color-swallowed-by-a-crack-but-what-color/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [“All horrors are dulled by routine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/all-horrors-are-dulled-by-routine/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [“The fourth dimension, he liked to say, encompasses the three dimensions and consequently puts them in their place, that is, it obliterates the dictatorship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/the-fourth-dimension-he-liked-to-say-encompasses-the-three-dimensions/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/every-book-in-the-world-is-out-there-waiting-to-be-read-by-me/)

[Roberto Bolano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [“Y después de coger a mi general le gustaba salir al patio a fumarse su cigarro y a pensar en la tristeza poscoito, en…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/y-despu-s-de-coger-a-mi-general-le-gustaba-salir-al-patio-a-fumarse/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

> [“I enjoy vegetarian food like I enjoy a kick in the stomach.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/i-enjoy-vegetarian-food-like-i-enjoy-a-kick-in-the-stomach/)

[Roberto Bolano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

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