"You run risks. That's the plain truth. You……" — Roberto Bolano
"You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims."
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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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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track…
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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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More Destiny Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
— Ansel Adams
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
— Honore de Balzac
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
— Douglas Adams
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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
— Dennis Banks
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Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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