“I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the end was Franz Kafka. In heaven, the Titans… — Roberto Bolaño Central park Copy Share Image
“Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a great writer and son of a bitch. Just an abject human being. It’s incredible that the coldest moments of… — Roberto Bolaño Abject Copy Share Image
It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of… — Roberto Bolano America Copy Share Image
“We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of… — Roberto Bolaño Faith Copy Share Image
“I began to tremble and he noticed. Why do I have to like the worst ones? I thought, why do I have… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“They talk but their words don't register on the soundtrack. Anyway, they must be saying things like how was your day, I'm… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my… — Roberto Bolaño Book Copy Share Image
“they lost the sense of being in a hostile environment, although hostile wasn’t the word, an environment whose language they refused to… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I get the idea perfectly, Mickey," said Archimboldi, thinking all the while that this man was not only irritating but ridiculous, with… — Roberto Bolano Ridiculousness Copy Share Image
“Gray mattresses with red and blue stripes in something that looks like a hallway or an overly long waiting room. In any… — Roberto Bolaño Living together Copy Share Image
“That's what art is, he said, the story of a life in all its particularity. It's the only thing that really is… — Roberto Bolaño Art Copy Share Image
“The Russians opened his mouth and with a pair of pliers the Germans used for other purposes they seized his tongue and… — Roberto Bolaño Wild beast 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“…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
“Of course, they didn't give names or dates, they spoke in what might be called abstract terms, but despite the seemingly detached… — Roberto Bolaño Melancholy 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
“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
“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
“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
