The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune. — Roberto Bolano Alive Copy Share Image
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better — Roberto Bolano Love Copy Share Image
“Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.” — Roberto Bolaño Courage Copy Share Image
“The brief sound is like a color swallowed by a crack. But what color?” — Roberto Bolaño Color Copy Share Image
“I think of all those who believed in a Latin American paradise and died in a Latin American hell.” — Roberto Bolaño Hell Copy Share Image
“Her eyes like the ideal geography book: maps of pure nightmare. "The Ghost of Edna Lieberman” — Roberto Bolaño Book Copy Share Image
“Someday Neruda and Octavio Paz will shake hands. Sooner or later Paz will make room on Olympus for Neruda. But we will… — Roberto Bolaño Neruda Copy Share Image
“Everything's over, I thought. I felt rested, I'm home, I have lots to do. When I sat up in bed, though, all… — Roberto Bolaño Felt Copy Share Image
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano Absurd Copy Share Image
“(since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has no shine and makes its home in a dark cave amid cave dwellers, some… — Roberto Bolaño Cave 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
“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
“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
“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
“Forget about it," he said. "Sell it to a philosophy quarterly or an urban anthropology journal, or write a fucking script if… — Roberto Bolaño Forget Copy Share Image
Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down and buy another one. Of course,… — Roberto Bolano Bottles Copy Share Image
“On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“For a while we talked about things I've forgotten now. Or maybe we were silent for a while, me sitting at the… — Roberto Bolaño Dark room Copy Share Image
“One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one’s actions, and that includes one’s words and silences, yes, one’s silences, because… — Roberto Bolaño Moral obligation Copy Share Image
“The card for the Santa Teresa cybercafe was a deepred, so red that it was hard to read what was printed on… — Roberto Bolaño Cafe Copy Share Image
“I didn't hit her, man, what happened was that Maria was obsessed with the Marquis de Sade and wanted to try the… — Roberto Bolaño Literature Copy Share Image
“Still, American television is full of smiles and more and more perfect-looking teeth. Do these people want us to trust them? No.… — Roberto Bolaño Good people Copy Share Image
“He had a little single-story house, three bedrooms, a full bathroom and a half bathroom, a combined kitchen-living room-dining room with windows… — Roberto Bolaño 163 Copy Share Image
“And finally the two of them plunged into the dark sea, a sea like a pack of wolves, and they dove around… — Roberto Bolaño Drowing Copy Share Image
“In a word, and bluntly: as they walked around Sankt Pauli, it came to Pelletier and Espinoza that the search for Archimboldi… — Roberto Bolaño Archimboldi Lives Copy Share Image
“Ulazim u njihove snove. Ulazim u njihove najsramnije misli, u svakom sam drhtaju, u svakom grču njihovih duša, uvlačim se u njihova… — Roberto Bolaño Toga Copy Share Image
“As far as Popescu was concerned, meanwhile, Dracula was simply a Romanian patriot who had resisted the Turks, a deed for which… — Roberto Bolaño Different perspective Copy Share Image
“It was raining in the quadrangle, and the quadrangular sky looked like a grimace of a robot or a god made in… — Roberto Bolaño Drinking tea Copy Share Image
“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and… — Roberto Bolaño Books 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
“...posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats...” — Roberto Bolano 2666 Copy Share Image
“a veces tenía salidas de este tipo, quiero decir que a veces parecía un niño malcriado, pero yo todo se lo perdonaba,… — Roberto Bolaño Amor 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
“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
“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
“said a hasty prayer and headed for a wooden bench, there to recover a composure more in keeping with what I was,… — Roberto Bolaño Hasty Copy Share Image
