“As far as Aricimboldi was concerned, Isou was a 'Romanian fuck-stick.” — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me. — Roberto Bolano Book Copy Share Image
“I’m mercurial, sometimes I want greatness, sometimes just its shadow.” — Roberto Bolaño Greatness Copy Share Image
“Our necessity. Our open mouth Where bread Goes in And dreams Come out.” — Roberto Bolaño Dream Copy Share Image
“Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen.” — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will… — Roberto Bolano Business Copy Share Image
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's… — Roberto Bolano 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
“I'd love her until the end of time, he thought. An hour later he'd already forgotten the matter completely.” — Roberto Bolaño End of time Copy Share Image
“With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.” — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet,… — Roberto Bolaño Humility Copy Share Image
“Suffering is accumulated, said my friend, that’s a fact, and the greater the suffering, the smaller the coincidence.” — Roberto Bolaño Friendship Copy Share Image
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of… — Roberto Bolano Book Copy Share Image
“Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is… — Roberto Bolano Coincidence Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“And then we would leave, and by that time it would already be dark, and as we headed to the bus or… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology… — Roberto Bolaño Memory Copy Share Image
“Ivanov’s breath smelled of vodka and sewers, sour and heavy, like something rotting, reminiscent of empty houses near swamps, nightfall at four… — Roberto Bolaño Horror film Copy Share Image
“One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one’s actions, and that includes one’s words and silences, yes, one’s silences, because… — Roberto Bolaño Moral obligation 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
“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
“As far as Popescu was concerned, meanwhile, Dracula was simply a Romanian patriot who had resisted the Turks, a deed for which… — Roberto Bolaño Different perspective Copy Share Image
“What is a look of absolute fear?" Popescu asked. The doctor belched a few times, shifted in his chair, and answered that… — Roberto Bolano Fear Copy Share Image
“In a brief moment of lucidity, I was sure that we'd all gone crazy. But then that moment of lucidity was displaced… — Roberto Bolaño Common humanity Copy Share Image
“He said that for those who hadn't been to California, what it was most like was an enchanted island. The spitting image.… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Did Jesus Christ, he asked, suspect that someday his church would spread to the farthest corners of Earth? Did Jesus Christ, he… — Roberto Bolaño Globalization Copy Share Image
“It was an almost supernatural power, I sometimes came to think (though immediately I mocked the idea), making normally talkative people like… — Roberto Bolaño End result Copy Share Image
“The strangest part of the dream,' said Pelletier, 'was the water was alive.” — Roberto Bolaño Dream Copy Share Image
“And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time.” — Roberto Bolaño Solitude Copy Share Image
The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've… — Roberto Bolano Alive Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me all of a sudden, said Amalfitano, it’s a Duchamp idea, leaving a geometry book hanging exposed to the… — Roberto Bolaño Artist Copy Share Image
“Right now you can cry and let your image dissolve on the windshields of cars parked along the Boardwalk. But you can't… — Roberto Bolaño Boardwalk Copy Share Image
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“So I ended up being an anarchist. I was the only anarchist I knew and thank god, because otherwise I would have… — Roberto Bolaño Anarchist Copy Share Image
