“Soñé que traducía al Marqués de Sade a golpes de hacha. Me había vuelto loco y vivía en un bosque.” — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
“Leave the book alone, pretend it doesn’t exist, forget about it, said Amalfitano, you’ve never been interested in geometry.” — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's… — Roberto Bolano Destiny Copy Share Image
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails… — Roberto Bolano Constant Copy Share Image
For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged… — Roberto Bolano Aliens 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
“Then they talked about freedom and evil, about the highways of freedom where evil is like a Ferrari.” — Roberto Bolaño Freedom Copy Share Image
“No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been… — Roberto Bolaño Chance Copy Share Image
“Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So… — Roberto Bolaño Autobiographies Copy Share Image
“La literatura se parece mucho a la pelea de los samuráis, pero un samurái no pelea contra otro samurái: pelea contra un… — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
“Amalfitano remembered a time when he believed that nothing happened by chance, everything happened for some reason, but when was that time?… — Roberto Bolaño Time Copy Share Image
“A rather small statue of Ernesto Cardenal shall stand in a Nicaraguan square in the year 2018. But all statues tumble eventually,… — Roberto Bolaño Divine intervention 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 Dreamed 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 Laugh Copy Share Image
“If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is… — Roberto Bolaño Quit smoking Copy Share Image
“When he went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror, he thought his features were changing. I look like… — Roberto Bolaño Mirror Copy Share Image
“My friend (if I may still call him that) believed in humanity, and so he also believed in order, in the order… — Roberto Bolaño Coincidence Copy Share Image
“I saw the way my eyes looked then, saw them with the eyes I have now, and I heard my cry once… — Roberto Bolaño Fondness 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
“I paid the taxi driver, got out with my suitcase, surveyed my surroundings, and just as I was turning to ask the… — Roberto Bolaño Alone Copy Share Image
“The heart of the matter is whether knowing evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random… — Roberto Bolaño Destiny Copy Share Image
“Anyway, these ideas or feelings or ramblings had their satisfactions. They turned the pain of others into memories of one’s own. They… — Roberto Bolaño Freedom 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
“He was an atheist and it had been years since he read a book, despite the fact that he had amassed a… — Roberto Bolaño Atheism Copy Share Image
“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of… — Roberto Bolaño Book 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 Later Copy Share Image
“This story is very simple, although it could have been very complicated. Also, it's incomplete, because stories like this don't have an… — Roberto Bolaño Incomplete 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 Left Copy Share Image
Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it. — Roberto Bolano Today Copy Share Image
“The University of Santa Teresa was like a cemetery that suddenly begins to think, in vain. It also was like an empty… — Roberto Bolaño Cemetery Copy Share Image
“book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths,… — Roberto Bolano Book Copy Share Image
“Maybe "warehouses" equals "mothers", a wide margin of error is permissible when you're dealing with super-impositions.” — Roberto Bolaño Impositions Copy Share Image
“He turned his face into the stream of water and closed his eyes. I'm not as sad as I'd have thought, he… — Roberto Bolaño Closed eyes Copy Share Image
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east. — Roberto Bolano Butterflies 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
They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him… — Roberto Bolano Books Copy Share Image
I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have… — Roberto Bolano Dream Copy Share Image
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led. — Roberto Bolano Clear 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 Virtue 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 the story, the real story. And it is simple and cruel and true and it should make us laugh, it should make us die laughing. But we only know how to cry, the only thing we do…” quote by Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/446/roberto-bola-o-725_real-story_a-nd-the-wizened-youth-trembles-more-and_1582042.jpg)
