Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. — Roberto Bolano Blood Copy Share Image
“You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.” — Roberto Bolaño Fear Copy Share Image
“I thought you were dying, said Amalfitano. "No, I was dreaming," said Castillo.” — Roberto Bolaño Death Copy Share Image
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me. — Roberto Bolano Book Copy Share Image
“I’m mercurial, sometimes I want greatness, sometimes just its shadow.” — Roberto Bolaño Greatness Copy Share Image
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at. — Roberto Bolano Pointed Copy Share Image
“Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.” — Roberto Bolaño History Copy Share Image
When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your… — Roberto Bolano Body Copy Share Image
“Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one’s way in the dark.” — Roberto Bolaño Great Physicists Copy Share Image
“I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that… — Roberto Bolaño Initiation Copy Share Image
“If you add infinity to infinity, you get infinity. If you mix the sublime and the creepy, what you end up with… — Roberto Bolaño Infinity Copy Share Image
“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.” — Roberto Bolaño Literature Copy Share Image
“Brief like beauty, Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who… — Roberto Bolaño Beauty Copy Share Image
“Belano se cree Breton, dice Requena. En realidad, todos los capo di famiglia de la poesía mexicana se creen Breton, suspira.” — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is… — Roberto Bolano Coincidence Copy Share Image
“I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology… — Roberto Bolaño Memory Copy Share Image
“After that moment, reality for Pelletier and Espinoza seemed to tear like paper scenery, and when it was stripped away it revealed… — Roberto Bolaño Time Copy Share Image
“These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he… — Roberto Bolaño Brave Copy Share Image
“When they turned, Pelletier and Espinoza saw an older woman in a white blouse and black skirt, a woman with a figure… — Roberto Bolaño Beauty 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 Power of words Copy Share Image
“I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the end was Franz Kafka. In heaven, the Titans… — Roberto Bolaño Central park Copy Share Image
“The fourth dimension, he liked to say, encompasses the three dimensions and consequently puts them in their place, that is, it obliterates… — Roberto Bolaño Fourth Dimension Copy Share Image
“That night I didn't sleep a wink, said Norton in her letter, and it occurred to me to call Morini. It was… — Roberto Bolaño Norton Letter Copy Share Image
“And then Lihn got out of the swimming pool and we went down to the ground floor, and we made our way… — Roberto Bolaño Another time Copy Share Image
“The town was sunk in a kind of crystal ball; everyone seemed to be asleep (transcendentally asleep!) no matter if they were… — Roberto Bolaño Autumn Copy Share Image
“When Espinoza was left alone (his flight was an hour later), his thoughts turned to Liz Norton and his real chances of… — Roberto Bolaño Imagined Copy Share Image
“Without turning, the pharmacist answered that he liked books like The Metamorphosis, Bartleby, A Simple Heart, A Christmas Carol. And then he… — Roberto Bolano Books Copy Share Image
The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur,… — Roberto Bolano Air Copy Share Image
“I get the idea perfectly, Mickey," said Archimboldi, thinking all the while that this man was not only irritating but ridiculous, with… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
