Roberto-bolano Quote by Roberto Bolaño

Literature + Illness = Illness

— Roberto Bolano

“Brief like beauty, Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There…

— Roberto Bolaño

“I try to find the books that I lost or forgot more than 30 years ago on another continent, with the hope and dedication…

— Roberto Bolaño

“In a word, and bluntly: as they walked around Sankt Pauli, it came to Pelletier and Espinoza that the search for Archimboldi could never…

— Roberto Bolaño

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

— Roberto Bolano

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

— Roberto Bolano

“book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time beside the…

— Roberto Bolaño

Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

— Roberto Bolano

“The brief sound is like a color swallowed by a crack. But what color?”

— Roberto Bolaño

“All horrors are dulled by routine.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“The fourth dimension, he liked to say, encompasses the three dimensions and consequently puts them in their place, that is, it obliterates the dictatorship…

— Roberto Bolaño