“...the borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear,… — Roberto Bolaño Courage Copy Share Image
“68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share. ” — Roberto Bolaño Art Copy Share Image
“I have good news and bad news. The good news is there is life (of a kind) after this life. The bad… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive… — Roberto Bolano Alive Copy Share Image
“He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown.” — Roberto Bolaño German philosopher Copy Share Image
“I am being followed, I realized, with a blend of certitude and astonishment, like a soldier discovering that gangrene has taken hold… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.” — Roberto Bolaño Beauty Copy Share Image
“a discussion within the framework of a larger discussion that was taking place in the same building” — Roberto Bolaño 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
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
“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
“a woman who despite her years was still as strong willed as ever, a woman who didn’t cling to the edge of… — Roberto Bolaño Beauty Copy Share Image
“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like… — Roberto Bolano Beach Copy Share Image
“…untill he felt Ingeborg slip two fingers into her vagina and then moisten the entrance to her ass with the same fingers… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to… — Roberto Bolano Belief Copy Share Image
Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the… — Roberto Bolano Beacons 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
The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur,… — Roberto Bolano 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
“What was Ivanov afraid of? ...Fear of being no good. Also fear of being overlooked. But above all, fear of being no… — Roberto Bolaño Fear Copy Share Image
“The root of all my ills, thought Amalfitano sometimes, is my admiration for Jews, homosexuals, and revolutionaries (true revolutionaries, the romantics and… — Roberto Bolaño Black hole Copy Share Image
“One night I dreamed of an angel: I walked into a huge, empty bar and saw him sitting in a corner with… — Roberto Bolaño Angel Copy Share Image
“And no one moans: there is no anguish. Only our nocturnal silence when we crawl on all fours toward the fires that… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I'm an educated man: the prisons I know are subtle ones. And of course poetry and prison have always been neighbors. And… — Roberto Bolaño Dreams 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 Bolano Books Copy Share Image
“When I was an adolescent I wanted to be a Jew, a Bolshevik, black, homosexual, a junkie, half-crazy, and--the crowning touch-- a… — Roberto Bolaño Amputee Copy Share Image
“It's absurd to see an enchanted princess in every girl who walks by. What do you think you are, a troubadour?” — Roberto Bolaño Enchanted Copy Share Image
…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“The sickness is to sit at the base of the lighthouse staring into nothing. The lighthouse is black, the sea is black,… — Roberto Bolaño Lighthouse Copy Share Image
“There's a secret sickness called Lisa. Like all sicknesses, it's miserable and it comes on at night.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.” — Roberto Bolaño Language Copy Share Image
“Is that the true, the supreme terror, to discover that I am the wizened youth whose cries no one can hear?” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“For the first few miles the highway ran through a little valley dotted with rocks that seemed to have fallen from the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth,… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry… — Roberto Bolaño Literature Copy Share Image
“These days there's no time to be bored, happiness has vanished somewhere in the world, and all that's left is dismay.” — Roberto Bolaño Bored Copy Share Image
“Among other things, my own experience has led me to believe that American naivete can sometimes be more than it seems; it… — Roberto Bolaño Naivete Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“One of the inconveniences of stealing books—especially for a novice like myself—is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.” — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one… — Roberto Bolaño History Copy Share Image
