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Roberto Bolano
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Roberto Bolano
Age: 50 †
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
Died: 2003
Died: July 16
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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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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 with him.
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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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Literature + Illness = Illness
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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, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.
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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats
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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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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 simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
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If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.
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