--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: It was an almost supernatural power, I…" description: "\"“It was an almost supernatural power, I sometimes came to think (though immediately I mocked the idea), making normally talkative people like the Bolog..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/roberto-bola-o-725_end-result_it-was-an-almost-supernatural-power-i-so_1447811.jpg" --- # It was an almost supernatural power, I sometimes came to… ![“It was an almost supernatural power, I sometimes came to think (though immediately I mocked the idea), making normally talkative people like the Bolognan fall silent, or silent people like the Libyan turn entirely mute, a force that wrested every last question from the mouths of the eternally…” quote by Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/roberto-bola-o-725_end-result_it-was-an-almost-supernatural-power-i-so_1447811.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/roberto-bola-o-725_end-result_it-was-an-almost-supernatural-power-i-so_1447811.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/roberto-bola-o-725_end-result_it-was-an-almost-supernatural-power-i-so_1447811.jpg) > ““It was an almost supernatural power, I sometimes came to think (though immediately I mocked the idea), making normally talkative people like the Bolognan fall silent, or silent people like the Libyan turn entirely mute, a force that wrested every last question from the mouths of the eternally curious, that created a space of artificial silence and darkness where I could cry and writhe in pain because I didn't like what I was doing, but where I could also come as many times as I wanted and where I could walk (or probe the surface of reality with my fingertips) without false hope, without illusion, not knowing the meaning of it all but knowing the end result, knowing why things are where they are, with a degree of clarity that I haven't had since, though sometimes I sense that it's there, curled up inside of me, shrunken and dismembered - luckily for me - but still there.”” [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. The narrator describes a profound, almost mystical mental state that silences curiosity, creates darkness, and offers both pain and clarity about existence. **In simple terms:** A deep, unsettling mental clarity. Key Takeaway Seek inner truth despite discomfort. 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