“they lost the sense of being in a hostile environment, although hostile wasn’t the word, an environment whose language they refused to… — Roberto Bolaño Hostile Copy Share Image
“We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of… — Roberto Bolaño Faith Copy Share Image
“I began to tremble and he noticed. Why do I have to like the worst ones? I thought, why do I have… — Roberto Bolaño Attracted Copy Share Image
The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but… — Roberto Bolano Age Copy Share Image
“He also discovered that he was bitter and full of resentment, that he oozed resentment, and that he might easily kill someone,… — Roberto Bolaño Mind 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
“Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a great writer and son of a bitch. Just an abject human being. It’s incredible that the coldest moments of… — Roberto Bolaño Abject Copy Share Image
It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of… — Roberto Bolano America 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
“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
“Without turning, the pharmacist answered that he liked books like The Metamorphosis, Bartleby, A Simple Heart, A Christmas Carol. And then he… — Roberto Bolano Books Copy Share Image
“And yet your shadow isn't following you anymore. At some point your shadow has quietly slipped away. You pretend you don't notice,… — Roberto Bolaño Shadow 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
“Not only to myself or before the mirror or at the hour of my death, which I hope will be long in… — Roberto Bolaño Death 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
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
“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
“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
The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left.… — Roberto Bolano Emptiness 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
“While he was waiting, leaning on the counter at a coffee place, he remembered the dream he'd had the night before about… — Roberto Bolaño Death Copy Share Image
