"But every single damn thing matters! Only we……" — Roberto Bolano
"But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie."
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Roberto Bolano
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62 Quotes by Roberto Bolano
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is…
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The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive,…
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Literature + Illness = Illness
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum.…
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over,…
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Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the…
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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some…
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I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book…
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I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the…
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I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I…
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They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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