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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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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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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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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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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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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 never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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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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…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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better
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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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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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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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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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