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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Roberto Bolano

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Roberto Bolano
Age: 50 †
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
Died: 2003
Died: July 16
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Writer
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Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.
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…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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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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I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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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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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?
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Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.
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I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better
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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.
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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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