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# Roberto Bolaño

(1953–2003)   Writer

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Roberto Bolaño was a writer.

## Quick Facts About Roberto Bolaño

Born April 28, 1953

Died July 15, 2003

Profession Writer

## About Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist, short‑story writer, poet and essayist.

##  Quotes by Roberto Bolaño · Page 2

> [Literature + Illness = Illness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/literature-illness-illness/)

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[Hipster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hipster/)

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> [“An individual is no match for history.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/an-individual-is-no-match-for-history/)

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[History](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/)

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> [“Isn't reality an insatiable AIDS-riddled whore?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/isn-t-reality-an-insatiable-aids-riddled-whore/)

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> [“Only poetry isn't shit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/only-poetry-isn-t-shit/)

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[Poetry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/)

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> [“Reality is an AIDS-riddled whore.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/reality-is-an-aids-riddled-whore/)

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> [“When it left, death didn't even close our eyes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/when-it-left-death-didn-t-even-close-our-eyes/)

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[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

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> [Only in chaos are we conceivable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/only-in-chaos-are-we-conceivable/)

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[Chaos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chaos/)

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> [“Reading is never a waste of time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/reading-is-never-a-waste-of-time/)

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> [“The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/the-demented-strutting-of-a-dumb-bird-in-the-moonlight/)

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> [“Everything that begins as comedy ends as a comic monologue, but we aren't laughing anymore.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/everything-that-begins-as-comedy-ends-as-a-comic-monologue-but-we/)

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[Comedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comedy/)

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> [“pain is our only connection with life; only pain can reveal what life is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/pain-is-our-only-connection-with-life-only-pain-can-reveal-what-life/)

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[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [“... dizzied, thrilled, depressed by remembering...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/dizzied-thrilled-depressed-by-remembering/)

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[Remembering](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/remembering/)

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> [Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/metaphors-are-our-way-of-losing-ourselves-in-semblances-or-treading/)

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> [“Nothing lasts, the purely loving gestures of children tumble into the void.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/nothing-lasts-the-purely-loving-gestures-of-children-tumble-into-the/)

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[Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/child/)

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> [“Philip K. Dick died and now we only need what is strictly necessary.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/philip-k-dick-died-and-now-we-only-need-what-is-strictly-necessary/)

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> [“Only fever and poetry provoke visions. Only love and memory.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/only-fever-and-poetry-provoke-visions-only-love-and-memory/)

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[Dreams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dreams/)

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> [So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/so-everything-lets-us-down-including-curiosity-and-honesty-and-what/)

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> [Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/being-alone-makes-us-stronger-that-s-the-honest-truth-but-it-s-cold/)

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[Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/)

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> [“For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/for-me-the-word-writing-is-the-exact-opposite-of-the-word-waiting/)

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> [“Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/everything-is-a-burned-book-my-dear-maestro-music-the-tenth-dimension/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/jesus-is-the-masterpiece-the-thieves-are-minor-works-why-are-they/)

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> [“Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word life ,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/used-in-a-personal-sense-the-phrase-achieve-an-end-seemed-to-her-a/)

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[Happiness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/)

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> [“With the innocence of the dead, who no longer mind being observed, the people in the photographs gazed out on the professors'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/with-the-innocence-of-the-dead-who-no-longer-mind-being-observed-the/)

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> [“Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/posthumous-it-sounds-like-the-name-of-a-roman-gladiator-an/)

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[Courage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/courage/)

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> [“He dreamed that he and Elvira Campos lived together in a cabin in the mountains. The cabin didn't have electricity or running…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/he-dreamed-that-he-and-elvira-campos-lived-together-in-a-cabin-in-the/)

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> [“A rather small statue of Ernesto Cardenal shall stand in a Nicaraguan square in the year 2018. But all statues tumble eventually,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/a-rather-small-statue-of-ernesto-cardenal-shall-stand-in-a-nicaraguan/)

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[Divine intervention](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/divine-intervention/)

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> [“La literatura se parece mucho a la pelea de los samuráis, pero un samurái no pelea contra otro samurái: pelea contra un…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/la-literatura-se-parece-mucho-a-la-pelea-de-los-samur-is-pero-un/)

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[Amor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amor/)

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> [“Amalfitano remembered a time when he believed that nothing happened by chance, everything happened for some reason, but when was that time?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/amalfitano-remembered-a-time-when-he-believed-that-nothing-happened/)

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[Time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/)

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> [“If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/if-volition-is-bound-to-social-imperatives-as-william-james-believed/)

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> [ “\[A\]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/a-nd-the-wizened-youth-trembles-more-and-more-violently-wrinkles-his/)

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[Laugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/laugh/)

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> [Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/probably-all-of-us-writers-and-readers-alike-set-out-into-exile-or-at/)

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> [“Today I realized that what I wrote yesterday I really wrote today: everything from December 31 I wrote on January 1, i.e.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/today-i-realized-that-what-i-wrote-yesterday-i-really-wrote-today/)

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[Writer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writer/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/he-had-a-little-single-story-house-three-bedrooms-a-full-bathroom-and/)

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> [“Still, American television is full of smiles and more and more perfect-looking teeth. Do these people want us to trust them? No.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/still-american-television-is-full-of-smiles-and-more-and-more-perfect/)

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[Good people](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-people/)

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> [“What is a look of absolute fear?" Popescu asked. The doctor belched a few times, shifted in his chair, and answered that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/what-is-a-look-of-absolute-fear-popescu-asked-the-doctor-belched-a/)

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[Fear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fear/)

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> [“He said that for those who hadn't been to California, what it was most like was an enchanted island. The spitting image.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/he-said-that-for-those-who-hadn-t-been-to-california-what-it-was-most/)

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> [“In a brief moment of lucidity, I was sure that we'd all gone crazy. But then that moment of lucidity was displaced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/in-a-brief-moment-of-lucidity-i-was-sure-that-we-d-all-gone-crazy-but/)

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[Common humanity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/common-humanity/)

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> [“...then it wouldn't be a bad thing, or at least not the worst thing, to enter the third millenium asking for forgiveness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/then-it-wouldn-t-be-a-bad-thing-or-at-least-not-the-worst-thing-to/)

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[Asking for forgiveness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asking-for-forgiveness/)

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> [“Around this time, Pelletier and Espinoza, worried about the current state of their mutual lover, had two long conversations on the phone.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/around-this-time-pelletier-and-espinoza-worried-about-the-current/)

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[American literature](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-literature/)

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> [“It was raining in the quadrangle, and the quadrangular sky looked like a grimace of a robot or a god made in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/it-was-raining-in-the-quadrangle-and-the-quadrangular-sky-looked-like/)

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[Drinking tea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drinking-tea/)

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## Roberto Bolaño by topic

[Books (42)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/roberto-bola-o/) [Time (37)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/roberto-bola-o/) [Writing (28)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/roberto-bola-o/) [Writer (23)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writer/roberto-bola-o/) [Poetry (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/roberto-bola-o/) [Life (15)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/roberto-bola-o/) [Dreams (15)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dreams/roberto-bola-o/) [Death (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/roberto-bola-o/) [Love (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/roberto-bola-o/) [Literature (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/literature/roberto-bola-o/) [Reading (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/reading/roberto-bola-o/) [Book (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/roberto-bola-o/) [Amor (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amor/roberto-bola-o/)

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