“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
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation. — Roberto Bolano Desperation Copy Share Image
“He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown.” — Roberto Bolaño German philosopher Copy Share Image
“The sickness is to sit at the base of the lighthouse staring into nothing. The lighthouse is black, the sea is black,… — Roberto Bolaño Lighthouse Copy Share Image
“There's a secret sickness called Lisa. Like all sicknesses, it's miserable and it comes on at night.” — Roberto Bolaño Secret Sickness Copy Share Image
…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should… — Roberto Bolano Feels Copy Share Image
“When I was an adolescent I wanted to be a Jew, a Bolshevik, black, homosexual, a junkie, half-crazy, and--the crowning touch-- a… — Roberto Bolaño Amputee Copy Share Image
“It's absurd to see an enchanted princess in every girl who walks by. What do you think you are, a troubadour?” — Roberto Bolaño Enchanted Copy Share Image
“Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth,… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.” — Roberto Bolaño Language Copy Share Image
“But in practice, neither believed in friendship or loyalty. They believed in passion, they believed in a hybrid form of social or… — Roberto Bolaño Capitalism Copy Share Image
“The style was strange. The writing was clear and sometimes even transparent, but the way the stories followed one after another didn’t… — Roberto Bolaño Children Copy Share Image
“I don’t have much time, I have to haul corpses. I don’t have much time, I have to breath, eat, drink, sleep.… — Roberto Bolaño 2666 Copy Share Image
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the… — Roberto Bolano Books 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
Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the… — Roberto Bolano Beacons Copy Share Image
“Of course, they didn't give names or dates, they spoke in what might be called abstract terms, but despite the seemingly detached… — Roberto Bolaño Melancholy Copy Share Image
That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to… — Roberto Bolano Belief Copy Share Image
“And no one moans: there is no anguish. Only our nocturnal silence when we crawl on all fours toward the fires that… — Roberto Bolaño Far side Copy Share Image
“What was Ivanov afraid of? ...Fear of being no good. Also fear of being overlooked. But above all, fear of being no… — Roberto Bolaño Fear Copy Share Image
“According to Padilla, remembered Amalfitano, all literature could be classified as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. Novels, in general, were heterosexual. Poetry, on… — Roberto Bolaño Books 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 Ridiculousness Copy Share Image
“Gray mattresses with red and blue stripes in something that looks like a hallway or an overly long waiting room. In any… — Roberto Bolaño Living together Copy Share Image
“Marchand dreams that in one magical and endless night the rejected manuscripts make love every way possible with his abandoned manuscript: they… — Roberto Bolaño Love Copy Share Image
“That's what art is, he said, the story of a life in all its particularity. It's the only thing that really is… — Roberto Bolaño Art Copy Share Image
“The Russians opened his mouth and with a pair of pliers the Germans used for other purposes they seized his tongue and… — Roberto Bolaño Wild beast Copy Share Image
