“And quick strokes of other less intimate adventures Flashed in her wounded eyes like fireflies.” — Roberto Bolaño Fire Copy Share Image
Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game. — Roberto Bolaño Game Copy Share Image
No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them. — Roberto Bolano Attention Copy Share Image
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“pain is our only connection with life; only pain can reveal what life is.” — Roberto Bolaño Life Copy Share Image
“Nothing lasts, the purely loving gestures of children tumble into the void.” — Roberto Bolaño Child Copy Share Image
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano 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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
“Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us,… — Roberto Bolaño 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
“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
“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,… — Roberto Bolaño Book Copy Share Image
“Permanence has been swept aside by the rapidity of empty images. The pantheon, we discover to our astonishment, is the doghouse of… — Roberto Bolaño Permanence Copy Share Image
“Florita Almada had nothing to say. When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“…no biography of his existed in German even though sales of his books were rising in Germany as well as the rest… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“I try to find the books that I lost or forgot more than 30 years ago on another continent, with the hope… — Roberto Bolaño Book Copy Share Image
“No os lo vais a creer, pero ayer por la noche, a eso de las cuatro de la madrugada, vi en la… — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
“Espinoza experienced something similar, though slightly different in two respects. First, the need to be near Liz Norton struck some time before… — Roberto Bolaño Perfect woman Copy Share Image
“He rode well. I'm a good horsewoman, but he was good as I was or maybe better, I don't know. At the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“What a sad paradox, though Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that… — Roberto Bolaño 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 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 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
“In a word, and bluntly: as they walked around Sankt Pauli, it came to Pelletier and Espinoza that the search for Archimboldi… — Roberto Bolaño 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
“Everything that begins as comedy ends as a comic monologue, but we aren't laughing anymore.” — Roberto Bolaño Comedy Copy Share Image
“His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.” — Roberto Bolaño Saddened Copy Share Image
You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
