Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping… — Roberto Bolano Availability Copy Share Image
“You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.” — Roberto Bolaño Fear Copy Share Image
“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The… — Roberto Bolano Books Copy Share Image
“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The… — Roberto Bolaño Bolano 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
“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
“Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us,… — Roberto Bolaño Life 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
But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life,… — Roberto Bolano Art Copy Share Image
“What is a look of absolute fear?" Popescu asked. The doctor belched a few times, shifted in his chair, and answered that… — Roberto Bolano Fear 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 Copy Share Image
“What am I guilty of, then? Of having loved and continuing to love- no, not of loving: of longing.” — Roberto Bolaño Desire Copy Share Image
“Once again reality has proved that no particular group has a monopoly over demagogy, dogmatism, and ignorance.” — Roberto Bolaño Ignorance 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 Copy Share Image
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on,… — Roberto Bolano Arrested 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 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
“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
“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
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
“Around this time, Pelletier and Espinoza, worried about the current state of their mutual lover, had two long conversations on the phone.… — Roberto Bolaño American literature Copy Share Image
“I cannot actually see him, but there he is in my mind's eye, crouching or down on all fours, on a hillock,… — Roberto Bolaño Black clouds 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