“One of the inconveniences of stealing books—especially for a novice like myself—is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.” — Roberto Bolaño Books 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
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. — Roberto Bolano Book 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
“I remember that a couple, both tall and thin, turned away from a painting and peered over as if I might be… — Roberto Bolaño Death Copy Share Image
“He dreamed that he and Elvira Campos lived together in a cabin in the mountains. The cabin didn't have electricity or running… — Roberto Bolaño Dreams 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 Copy Share Image
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. — Roberto Bolano Alive Copy Share Image
“And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time.” — Roberto Bolaño Solitude Copy Share Image
“[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know… — Roberto Bolaño Real story Copy Share Image
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the… — Roberto Bolano Blame Copy Share Image
“If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to… — Roberto Bolaño Advice 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
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune. — Roberto Bolano Alive Copy Share Image
“…dazzled by the shine of their own virtue, a shine that might not last (since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen.” — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing. — Roberto Bolano Done 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
If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear. — Roberto Bolano Expectations Copy Share Image
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their… — Roberto Bolano Asking Copy Share Image
“Besides Archimboldi, there was one thing Morini, Pelletier, and Espinoza had in common. All three had iron wills. Actually, they had one… — Roberto Bolaño 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
“The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what… — Roberto Bolaño American literature Copy Share Image