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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
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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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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
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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'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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.' It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.
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We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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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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