In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano Absurd Copy Share Image
“Everything's over, I thought. I felt rested, I'm home, I have lots to do. When I sat up in bed, though, all… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Someday Neruda and Octavio Paz will shake hands. Sooner or later Paz will make room on Olympus for Neruda. But we will… — Roberto Bolaño Neruda Copy Share Image
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. — Roberto Bolano Alive Copy Share Image
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on,… — Roberto Bolano 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
“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
“Forget about it," he said. "Sell it to a philosophy quarterly or an urban anthropology journal, or write a fucking script if… — Roberto Bolaño 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
“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 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
“Rosa was seventeen and she was Spanish. Amalfitano was fifty and Chilean. Rosa had had a passport since she was ten. On… — Roberto Bolaño 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“...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
“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
“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
“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
“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
…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
“There's a secret sickness called Lisa. Like all sicknesses, it's miserable and it comes on at night.” — Roberto Bolaño 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
“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
“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
“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
